Entropy generation for a paramagnetic fluid in a square enclosure with thermomagnetic convection is numerically investigated under the influence of a magnetic quadrupole field. The magnetic field is calculated using the scalar magnetic potential approach. The finite-volume method is applied to solve the coupled equation for flow, energy, and entropy generation. Simulations are conducted to obta...

Abstract: Lubricating greases show a structural degradation due to friction stress. The shear process dissipates energy. This results in a breakdown of the thickener structure, heat and entropy generation. Tribo-systems are energy driven systems. The stressed lubricating grease is modeled as a subsystem and presents an open thermodynamic system. Investigations were made to obtain more informati...

The possibility of reconciliation between canonical probability distributions obtained from the q-maximum entropy principle with predictions from the law of large numbers when empirical samples are held to the same constraints, is investigated into. Canonical probability distributions are constrained by both: (i) the additive duality of generalized statistics and (ii) normal averages expectatio...

Abtract Recently, Hawking radiation of the black hole has been studied by using the tunnel effect method. It is found that the radiation spectrum of the black hole is not a strictly pure thermal spectrum. How does the departure from pure thermal spectrum affect the entropy? This is a very interesting problem. In this paper, we calculate the partition function through energy spectrum obtained by...

Solvent entropy is a force to consider in protein folding and protein design but is difficult to model. It is investigated here in the context of the hp model: Two types of residues, hydrophobic and hydrophilic, are modeled on a lattice. Nine chains and two- and three-dimensional simulations are compared. We show that considering solvent entropy alone, efficient folding of lattice chains (ident...

The selection of an appropriate wavelet is an essential issue that should be addressed in the wavelet-based filtering of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Since entropy can measure the features of uncertainty associated with the ECG signal, a novel comprehensive entropy criterion Ecom based on multiple criteria related to entropy and energy is proposed in this paper to search for an optimal base...

Pathogenic protein fibrils have been shown in vitro to have nucleation-dependent kinetics despite the fact that one-dimensional structures do not have the size-dependent surface energy responsible for the lag time in classical theory. We present a theory showing that the conformational entropy of the peptide chains creates a free-energy barrier that is analogous to the translational entropy bar...