contexts, in order to understand and classify systems and behaviors that are supposed to be complex. Here, by using SDL measure …

Graph theory and entropy concepts are used to retrieve and quantify information in dD-sets of points. In this approach …–Leibler's entropy as pertaining to graph edge-length distributions. This relative entropy uses the edge-length distribution of graphs …

approach of irreversibility. They allow us to evaluate both the technological level and the environmental impact of the … irreversible thermodynamic approach, in order to evaluate the inefficiency both of the process and of the production systems, and … the related consequences. Three applications are summarized in order to highlight the possible interest from different …

irreversibility. The analysis developed in this paper points out that the principle of maximum of entropy generation and the least … can be related to the extremum entropy generation theorem. Irreversibility is the result of the interaction between …Is there a link between the macroscopic description of the irreversibility and microscopic behaviour of the systems …

The extremum of entropy generation is evaluated for both maximum and minimum cases using a thermodynamic approach which … the entropy generation extremum theorem is proved by the engineering approach. It follows from the proof that the entropy … evaluated within the system. The Bernoulli equation is analyzed as an example in order to evaluate the internal and external …

irreversibility in the rotary air preheater using exergy analysis. For this, the effects of the variation of the principal design …

entropy production rate and the maximum entropy production, useful in the analysis of dissipation and irreversibility of …, dissipation and irreversibility are analyzed using the entropy generation, for which there exist two principle of extrema too, the … their steady state, two apparently opposed principles for their rate of entropy production have been proposed: the minimum …

, two apparently opposed principles for the rate of entropy production have been used: the minimum entropy production rate … derived by Prigogine, used in the description of various processes in physics, chemistry and biology, and the maximum entropy … entropy production in an open system at the steady state under non-equilibrium conditions. In this paper, a link between these …