The purpose of this article is to assess the value of entransy for use in the thermal system engineering domain and in particular for design. The conclusion is that use of entransy is not recommended. This finding is in keeping with increasing uneasiness that has emerged recently in the...

Is there a link between the macroscopic description of the irreversibility and microscopic behaviour of the systems? Transfer of the exergy, i.e., consumption of free energy will keep the system away from a stable equilibrium. So entropy generation results from the redistribution of energy,...

Progress always requires energy. Up today, the energy needs have been provided by combustion of fossil fuels and this has increased the air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gasses. Consequently, the greenhouse emission problem could represents a concrete opportunity to promote the...

The extremum of entropy generation is evaluated for both maximum and minimum cases using a thermodynamic approach which is usually applied in engineering to design energy transduction systems. A new result in the thermodynamic analysis of the entropy generation extremum theorem is proved by the...

Cells can be regarded as engines that execute a series of chemical reactions. A malignant cell, that is, a cancerous cell, can be described as an open complex dynamic and self-organising system. The entropy generation approach has been used to evaluate the stationary states for cells in relation...

Open systems are very important in science and engineering for their applications and the analysis of the real word. At their steady state, two apparently opposed principles for their rate of entropy production have been proposed: the minimum entropy production rate and the maximum entropy...

The chemical–physical analysis of the DNA have pointed out the connections between forces, thermodynamics and kinetics. The entropy generation approach has been suggested as a thermodynamic approach to evaluate the accessible states for cancer systems, in relation to their thermodynamic...

Biomechanical analyses of DNA have pointed out the connections among forces, thermodynamics and kinetics. The entropy generation approach has been suggested as a thermodynamic approach to evaluate the accessible states for cancer systems, in relation to their specific thermodynamic quantities,...

Exergy and entropy generation analysis of the open systems allows to obtain a measure of how far the open real systems deviate from equilibrium with their environment. A link between entropy generation maximum principle and the exergy analysis of engineering and natural systems is suggested in...

Cancer can be described as an open complex dynamic and self-organizing system. The stationary states of the open systems are analysed in engineering thermodynamics by entropy generation. The recent results on entropy generation are suggested as the basis of a new approach to cancer analysis in...