Microscopic chaos and macroscopic entropy in fluids
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In nonequilibrium thermodynamics macroscopic entropy creation plays an important role. Here we study, from various viewpoints, its relation with the phase space contraction, which has been recently proposed as an apparently alternative quantity. quantity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608444,
title = {Microscopic chaos and macroscopic entropy in fluids},
author = {Giovanni Gallavotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608444},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 1 figure, latex revtex