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Entropy, Volume 20, Issue 12

December 2018 - 100 articles

Cover Story: Ion-exchange membranes are applied in reverse electrodialysis, a renewable energy technology that is not yet commercial. There is a large amount of low-temperature heat produced in the industry today. Low-temperature waste heat can only be used for power production in a few applications. This review examines the possibility to enhance the efficiency of reverse electrodialysis by adding a thermal gradient to the concentration gradient of salt. We examine the membrane properties that will increase the efficiency. View this paper.
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Articles (100)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,180 Views
11 Pages

19 December 2018

Thermostability is a protein property that impacts many types of studies, including protein activity enhancement, protein structure determination, and drug development. However, most computational tools designed to predict protein thermostability req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,127 Views
15 Pages

Complex Behavior of Nano-Scale Tribo-Ceramic Films in Adaptive PVD Coatings under Extreme Tribological Conditions

  • German Fox-Rabinovich,
  • Anatoly Kovalev,
  • Iosif Gershman,
  • Dmitry Wainstein,
  • Myriam H. Aguirre,
  • Danielle Covelli,
  • Jose Paiva,
  • Kenji Yamamoto and
  • Stephen Veldhuis

19 December 2018

Experimental investigations of nano-scale spatio-temporal effects that occur on the friction surface under extreme tribological stimuli, in combination with thermodynamic modeling of the self-organization process, are presented in this paper. The stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,632 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2018

Detecting and classifying ships based on radiated noise provide practical guidelines for the reduction of underwater noise footprint of shipping. In this paper, the detection and classification are implemented by auditory inspired convolutional neura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,848 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2018

One type of fractal dimension definition is based on the generalized entropy function. Both entropy and fractal dimensions can be employed to characterize complex spatial systems such as cities and regions. Despite the inherent connection between ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,030 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2018

We apply the stochastic thermodynamics formalism to describe the dynamics of systems of complex Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations. We provide in particular a simple and general recipe to calculate thermodynamical currents, dissipated and propagati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,092 Views
14 Pages

18 December 2018

In 1923, Hadamard encountered a class of integrals with strong singularities when using a particular Green’s function to solve the cylindrical wave equation. He ignored the infinite parts of such integrals after integrating by parts. Such an id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,692 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2018

Graph kernels are of vital importance in the field of graph comparison and classification. However, how to compare and evaluate graph kernels and how to choose an optimal kernel for a practical classification problem remain open problems. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,133 Views
16 Pages

A Simple Thermodynamic Model of the Internal Convective Zone of the Earth

  • Karen Arango-Reyes,
  • Marco Antonio Barranco-Jiménez,
  • Gonzalo Ares de Parga-Álvarez and
  • Fernando Angulo-Brown

18 December 2018

As it is well known both atmospheric and mantle convection are very complex phenomena. The dynamical description of these processes is a very difficult task involving complicated 2-D or 3-D mathematical models. However, a first approximation to these...

  • Reply
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,108 Views
2 Pages

18 December 2018

The purpose of this reply is to provide a discussion and closure for the comment paper by Dr. Bormashenko on the present authors’ article, which discussed the application of the principle of least action in reversible thermodynamic processes and cycl...

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