Reversibility, work, and heat at nonequilibrium steady states
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 30 (2) , 1115-1117
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.30.1115
Abstract
The statistical theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics is used to obtain expressions for the reversible heat and work at nonequilibrium steady states. The variable which is thermodynamically conjugate to the generalized entropy is an integrating factor for the reversible heat.Keywords
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