Thermodynamics and Fluctuations far from Equilibrium

I. Thermodynamics and Fluctuations Far from Equilibrium

1. Introduction to Part I

2. Thermodynamics Far from Equilibrium: Linear and Nonlinear One-Variable Systems

3. Thermodynamic State Function for Single and Multivariable Systems

4. Continuation of Deterministic Approach for Multivariable Systems

5. Thermodynamic and Stochastic Theory of Reaction–Diffusion Systems

6. Stability and Relative Stability of Multiple Stationary States Related to Fluctuations

7. Experiments on Relative Stability in Kinetic Systems with Multiple Stationary States

8. Thermodynamic and Stochastic Theory of Transport Processes

9. Thermodynamic and Stochastic Theory for Non-Ideal Systems

10. Electrochemical Experiments in Systems Far from Equilibrium

11. Theory of Determination of Thermodynamic and Stochastic Potentials from Macroscopic Measurements

II. Dissipation and Efficiency in Autonomous and Externally Forced Reactions, Including Several Biochemical Systems

12. Dissipation in Irreversible Processes

13. Efficiency of Irreversible Processes

14. Finite-Time Thermodynamics
R. Stephen Berry

15. Reduction of Dissipation in Heat Engines by Periodic Changes of External Constraints

16. Dissipation and Efficiency in Biochemical Reactions

17. Three Applications of Chapter 16

III. Stochastic Theory and Fluctuations in Systems Far from Equilibrium, Including Disordered Systems

18. Fluctuation–Dissipation Relations

19. Fluctuations in Limit Cycle Oscillators

20. Disordered Kinetic Systems

DRM-restrictions

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