The maximum energy dissipation principle and phenomenological cooperative and collective effects
Chemical Physics
2010-03-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The collective phenomena in physics and cooperative phenomena in biology/chemistry is compared in terms of the variational description. The maximum energy dissipation principle is employed and the cost-like functional is chosen according to an optimal control based formulation (Moroz, 2008; Moroz, 2009). Using this approach, the variational outline has been considered for non-equilibrium thermodynamic conditions. The differences between the application of the proposed approach to the description of cooperative phenomena in chemical/biochemical kinetics and the Landau free energy approach to collective phenomena in physics have been investigated.
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@article{arxiv.1003.0563,
title = {The maximum energy dissipation principle and phenomenological cooperative and collective effects},
author = {Adam Moroz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0563},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Preprint, 11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Physics Letters A, to appear in 2010