scholarly journals Partition Function and Configurational Entropy in Non-Equilibrium States: A New Theoretical Model

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Takada ◽  
Reinhard Conradt ◽  
Pascal Richet
Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uday Chakraborty

Modeling is an integral part of fuel cell design and development. This paper identifies a long-standing inaccuracy in the fuel cell modeling literature. Specifically, it discusses an inexact insertion, in popular models, of cell/stack current into Nernst’s equation in the derivation of output (load) voltage. The origin of the inaccuracy is traced to the nature of reversible and irreversible potentials (equilibrium and non-equilibrium states) in the cell. The significance of the inaccuracy is explained in the context of the electrochemistry and thermodynamics of the fuel cell.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rouven Frassek ◽  
Cristian Giardina ◽  
Jorge Kurchan

A large family of diffusive models of transport that have been considered in the past years admit a transformation into the same model in contact with an equilibrium bath. This mapping holds at the full dynamical level, and is independent of dimension or topology. It provides a good opportunity to discuss questions of time reversal in out of equilibrium contexts. In particular, thanks to the mapping one may define the free energy in the non-equilibrium states very naturally as the (usual) free energy of the mapped system.


2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Davanger ◽  
Öivin Holter

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