Description of Transfer Processes in a Locally Nonequilibrium Medium

Entropy (Basel). 2018 Dec 23;21(1):9. doi: 10.3390/e21010009.

Abstract

This paper presents a description of the fluctuations in transfer processes in a locally nonequilibrium medium. We obtained equations which allow the fluctuations range to be determined for a transferred physical value. It was shown that the general method of describing fluctuations for the processes of diffusion, heat transfer, and viscous fluid flow can be applied. It was established that the fluctuation spectrum during the transfer processes has the character of flicker noise in the low-frequency spectral range.

Keywords: diffusion; entropy production; flicker noise; irreversible processes; locally nonequilibrium medium; transfer processes.