SYSTEM (Irreversible)
Charles François (2004). SYSTEM (Irreversible), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3372.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
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Vol. (num.) |
2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3372 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Any concrete system , as a necessary user of energy , is unavoidably irreversible , as a consequence of the 2nd law of thermodynamics . It may however be dynamically stable
(PRIGOGINE's Principle of
minimum entropy production ) or be far-from-equilibrium
and
dissipative .
Only models
of
hamiltonian
systems are in principle reversible. But this is possible only in theory or at most for the
modelization
of relatively simple and strictly
deterministic relations .