par Karamanos, Konstantinos 
;Nicolis, Grégoire ;Massart, Thierry,Jacques ;Bouillard, Philippe
Référence Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 64, page (10), 011115
Publication Publié, 2001
;Nicolis, Grégoire ;Massart, Thierry,Jacques ;Bouillard, Philippe Référence Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 64, page (10), 011115
Publication Publié, 2001
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The entropy production associated to a Laplacian field distributed across irregular boundaries is studied. In the context of the active zone approximation an explicit expression is given for the entropy production in terms of geometry, whose relation to the variational formulation is discussed. It is shown that the entropy production diminishes for successive prefractal generations of the same fractal generator, so that the final fractal object is expected to dissipate less than all previous ones. The relevance of this result in the abundance of fractal surfaces or interfaces observed in nature is discussed. © 2001 The American Physical Society. |
