On the theory of reciprocal relations between irreversible processes: Statistical foundations of thermodynamical fluctuation theory in moving media

✍ Scribed by J. Vlieger; S.R. De Groot

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1954
• Weight: 552 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8914
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8914(54)80052-8

✦ Synopsis

have extended Onsager's proof of reciprocal relations between irreversible processes to the case of vectorial and tensorial phenomena. In the derivation expressions are used for certain averages of fluctuations of the variables a, ~ and ~, which describe the state of a great number of cells/~, into which the system is divided. These averages are calculated with the help of the probability distribution P ~ exp {AS (ate, ~)/k}, (a)