Irreversible processes at nonequilibrium steady states and Lyapounov functions

  1. G. Nicolis* and
  2. I. Prigogine*,†
  1. *Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, C.P. 231, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
  2. †University of Texas at Austin, Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Robert Lee Moore Hall, Austin, Texas 78712

Abstract

Nonequilibrium stability theory is reviewed. In answer to recent comments by Fox [Fox, R. F. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 2114-2117], it is pointed out that various choices of Lyapounov functions are possible in the nonlinear range of irreversible phenomena.

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  1. PNAS December 1, 1979 vol. 76 no. 12 6060-6061
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