Entropy, Volume 9, Issue 1

The second law analysis of heat transfer of a non-Newtonian, laminar fallingliquid film along an inclined heated plate is investigated. The upper surface of the liquidfilm is considered free and adiabatic. Velocity and temperature profiles are obtain...

There are two types of decisions: given the estimated state of affairs, one decidesto change oneself in a certain way (that is best suited for the given conditions); given whatone is, one decides to change the state of affairs in a certain way (that...

We review a decision theoretic, i.e., utility-based, motivation for entropy and Kullback-Leibler relative entropy, the natural generalizations that follow, and various properties of thesegeneralized quantities. We then consider these generalized quan...