A simplified climate model and maximum entropy production
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
2020-10-22 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
A simplified climate model based on maximum entropy production, described by a variational principle, is revisited and an analytical solution to its Euler-Lagrange equation is found. Mindful of controversy about maximum or minimum entropy production in open thermodynamical systems, we show that the solution extremizing the action integral corresponds to a maximum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.11183,
title = {A simplified climate model and maximum entropy production},
author = {Valerio Faraoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11183},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, to appear in Eur. Phys. J. Plus