Thermodynamics of Dissipative Structures and Related Emergent Phenomena
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Thermodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 284
Special Issue Editors
Interests: role of thermodynamics in the Earth climate system and other non-equilibrium systems; general interests in pattern formation in dissipative systems; thermodynamic approach to a theory of turbulence; quantitative GAIA hypothesis
Interests: Bayesian and maximum entropy methods for the analysis of engineering and scientific systems; theoretical foundations of Bayesian inference; Bayesian estimation and plausible reasoning; entropy-based inference and extremum methods; Bayesian risk assessment; heuristics and methods for the selection of prior probabilities; probabilistic transport and evolution equations and operators
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue welcomes all papers (regular articles, reviews and short communications) that focus on the emergence and formation of dissipative structures in systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Target systems can be physical, chemical, biological, or even mathematical. The scope of this Special Issue comprises all kinds of nonlinear non-equilibrium phenomena, from small-scale fluid dynamics to large-scale planetary circulations, as well as physical, chemical and biological kinetics characterized by their evolutional tendency to increase entropy associated with enhanced rates of free energy dissipation. Physical and chemical kinetic processes taking place under highly non-equilibrium circumstances are of particular interest in revealing the mechanism of spontaneous pattern formation and related emergent phenomena. The resultant organization of regular or complex structures as well as scale-invariant morphologies, often referred to as “fractal” structures, are also within the scope of this Special Issue. Both theoretical and application studies aimed at resolving issues found in experiments, observations and numerical model simulations are welcome. We invite contributions from researchers in any discipline working on any of the aforementioned topics.
Dr. Hisashi Ozawa
Dr. Robert Niven
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- physical kinetics
- dissipative structure
- entropy production
- pattern formation
- nonlinear process
- emergent phenomena
- self-organization
- fractal structure
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Tentative Title: Thermodynamic and dynamical system approaches for the birth and development of life
Authors: Yasuji Sawada ,1,2 Yasukazu Daigaku ,2,3 and Kenji Toma2,4
Affiliations:
1. Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
2. Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
3. Cancer Genome Dynamics project, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
4. Astronomical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Tentative Abstract: Combination of thermodynamic viewpoint and dynamical system approach are important to study a complex problem. The former gives global insight for a complex system, but the principle cannot be applied to obtain quantitative information. The latter is useful for solving a well-defined problem quantitatively, but it may not be applied for a wider problem such as evolution. The question “What is life?” has been asked and studied by the researchers of various fields. Nevertheless, no global theory which unified various aspects of life has been proposed so far. In this paper we try to combine these two approaches for this important and complex problem and discuss the remaining questions.
Tentative submission date: September 30, 2024
Author: Zensho Yoshida
Affiliation: National Institute of Fusion Science
Tentative submission date: October 31st, 2024
Tentative title: Thermodynamics of morphogenesis: Beading and branching pattern formation in diffusion-driven salt finger plumes
Authors: Hisashi Ozawa(1,2), Sayaka Ogino(1) and Axel Kleidon(3)
Affiliation:
1. Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan
2. School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
3. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Tentative submission date: 30 October, 2024
