the mechanical aspect of entropy-exergy relationship, together with the thermal aspect usually consid-ered, leads to an extended formulation of physical exergy based on both maximum useful work and maximum useful heat that are the outcome of available energy of a thermodynamic system. this approach suggests that a mechanical entropy can be studied, in addition to the already used thermal entrop...

It is shown that the well-known LANDAu-damping entropy paradox can be resolved by considering a macroscopic entropy as defined by CLAUSIUS instead of the microscopic entropy defined by BOLTZMANN. Although both entropy definitions are identical for equilibrium configurations, the same in general is not true for non-equilibrium configurations. To extend the entropy definition of CLAUSIUS to non-e...

A method, which we suggest to call the Empirical Maximum Entropy method, is implicitly present at Maximum Entropy Empirical Likelihood method, as its special, non-parametric case. From this vantage point the entropy-based empirical approach to estimation is surveyed.

We continue the study of Rokhlin entropy, an isomorphism invariant for p.m.p. actions of countable groups introduced in Part I. In this paper we prove a non-ergodic finite generator theorem and use it to establish subadditivity and semi-continuity properties of Rokhlin entropy. We also obtain formulas for Rokhlin entropy in terms of ergodic decompositions and inverse limits. Finally, we clarify...

We provide a unifying axiomatics for Rényi’s entropy and non–extensive entropy of Tsallis. It is shown that the resulting entropy coincides with Csiszár’s measure of directed divergence known from communication theory.

The steady-state fully-developed laminar flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluids is examined in a circular microchannel with slip boundary condition and under an imposed constant wall heat flux. Effects of slip as well as the hydrodynamic and thermal key parameters on heat transfer and entropy generation are investigated. The results reveal that increasing the Brinkman number and the flow behavi...

Temporal variations in the orientation of Cenozoic range growth in northeastern Tibet defi ne two modes by which India-Asia convergence was accommodated. Thermochronological age-elevation transects from the hanging walls of two major thrust-fault systems reveal diachronous Miocene exhumation of the Laji-Jishi Shan in northeastern Tibet. Whereas accelerated growth of the WNW-trending eastern Laj...

Metamorphic coesite and diamond in the Dabie Shan, eastern China, testify to subduction of continental crust to >100 km depth. Exhumation of these ultrahigh-pressure rocks through the crust encompassed two stages. (1) South-dipping foliation, southeastplunging stretching lineation, lineation-parallel isoclinal folds, and boudins indicate extreme subhorizontal shortening and subvertical extensio...