Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Entropy (Basel). 2020 Apr 29;22(5):507. doi: 10.3390/e22050507.

Róbert Kovács^{1

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3}, Antonio M Scarfone⁴, Sumiyoshi Abe^{5

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¹ Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary.
² Department of Theoretical Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Konkoly-Thege M. 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary.
³ Montavid Thermodynamic Research Group, 1112 Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISC-CNR), c/o, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy.
⁵ Physics Division, College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China.
⁶ Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, 420008 Kazan, Russia.
⁷ Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, Tashkent 100095, Uzbekistan.
⁸ ESIEA, 9 Rue Vesale, 75005 Paris, France.

Abstract

The present Special Issue, 'Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics', consists of seven original research papers [...].

Keywords: kinetic theory; non-equilibrium phenomena; second law of thermodynamics; statistical distributions; stochastic processes.