The fluctuation theory based on extended irreversible thermodynamics is applied to relate linear Burnett coefficients with second moments of the fluctuations of dissipative fluxes. The results agree with those of kinetic theory and of time-correlation function formalism in the domain of validity...

In this article we suggest a model to describe the thermal relaxation in denaturation process in a particular sequence of a long DNA, a polyC:polyG chain. We present the behavior predicted by the stochastic matrix method and compare it with the one obtained by a stochastic method based on a...

The Mori scheme for dealing with the description for the time evolution of a many body system towards its equilibrium state is used to construct a set of coarse grained or mesoscopic variables whose dynamics is uniquely connected with the corresponding microscopic dynamic operator. Also, the...

In this paper we show how using a relativistic kinetic equation the ensuing expression for the heat flux can be cast in the form required by Classical Irreversible Thermodynamics. Indeed, it is linearly related to the temperature and number density gradients and not to the acceleration as the so...

In this work we present a statistical model describing the denaturation process of DNA as a Markov process along the length of the chain. By identifying the stationary state of the Markov process with the equilibrium state of the system, we are able to obtain a relationship between the melting...