Titlebook: Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy; Life, Earth, and Bey Axel Kleidon,Ralph D. Lorenz Book 2005 Springer-Verlag B

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3 Stumbling into the MEP Racket: An Historical Perspective,ation of the Earth’s climate system. The tale discusses a number of reasons why the principle took so long – and indeed is still taking so long – to become generally acceptable and reasonably respectable.

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4 Maximum Entropy Production and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics,g from studies of phenomena as diverse as planetary climates, crystal growth morphology, bacterial metabolism and photosynthesis. And yet MEP is still regarded by many as nothing other than a curiosity, largely because a theoretical justification for it has been lacking. This chapter offers a non-ma

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6 Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility: Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle,producibility needs to be quantified. If we could replay the tape of the universe, many of the same structures (planets, stars, galaxies) would be reproduced as the universe expanded and cooled, and to these the MEP principle should apply. Whether the concept of MEP can be applied to life depends on

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7 Entropy Production in Turbulent Mixing,o two-dimensional turbulence, for which a formalism of statistical mechanics has been proposed. In that case entropy measures the randomness of turbulent fluctuations rather than the molecular fluctuations considered in usual thermodynamics. Nevertheless the same MEP formulation also applies in usua

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10 Thermodynamics of the Ocean Circulation: A Global Perspective on the Ocean System and Living Sysis, individual organisms, by analogy to the behavior of the ocean system. Despite the fact that the ocean system has long been examined from a dynamic point of view, its thermodynamic aspects remain to be explored. We show a quantitative method that expresses the rate of entropy production in an ope

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11 Entropy and the Shaping of the Landscape by Water,o thermodynamic principles have been applied to river networks: (1) the most probable state of a system is that its configurational entropy is a maximum, corresponding to dissipation spread evenly throughout the network, and (2) the principle of minimum total energy dissipation, similar to the princ

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12 Entropy Production in the Planetary Context,al transports of heat in planetary atmospheres. It has been noted that Titan and Mars, like the Earth, appear to have equator-to-pole heat transports consistent with a Maximum Entropy Production principle. The transport of heat by convection in the atmospheres and interiors of the planets can be vie