Entropy and Entropy Production in Multiscale Dynamics
arXiv:1809.05412 · doi:10.1515/jnet-2018-0059
Abstract
Heat conduction is investigated on three levels: equilibrium, Fourier, and Cattaneo. The Fourier level is either the point of departure for investigating the approach to equilibrium or the final stage in the investigation of the approach from the Cattaneo level. Both investigations bring to the Fourier level an entropy and a thermodynamics. In the absence of external and internal influences preventing the approach to equilibrium the entropy that arises in the latter investigation is the production of the classical entropy that arises in the former investigation. If the approach to equilibrium is prevented, then the entropy that arises in the investigation of the approach from the Cattaneo level to the Fourier level still brings to the Fourier level the entropy and the thermodynamics even if the classical entropy and the classical thermodynamics is absent. We also note that vanishing total entropy production as a characterization of equilibrium state is insufficient.
arXiv commentSubmitted to the Journal of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
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