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Thermodynamics, Geometry and Control Theory

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Thermodynamics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6910

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Valentin Lychagin

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1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
2. V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: differential equations; symmetries; conservation laws; differential invariants; Integrability; singularities solutions; shock waves and phase transitions
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the journal will be devoted to the following topics of thermodynamics and its applications:

  • Thermodynamics of complex systems equipped with inner structures and inner symmetries. Methods of finding and study their state Lagrangian manifolds and state equations.
  • Critical phenomena and phase transitions for solutions of non-linear PDEs and especially critical phenomena in fluid motions.
  • Phase transitions, critical exponents, and their relations with theory of Lagrangian singularities.
  • Control theory of thermodynamical processes, and especially processes with phase transitions.

Prof. Dr. Lychagin Valentin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Phase transition
  • Lagrangian singularity
  • State equation
  • Critical exponent
  • Inner symmetry

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On Energy–Information Balance in Automatic Control Systems Revisited
by Vladimir Rubtsov
Entropy 2020, 22(11), 1300; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22111300 - 15 Nov 2020
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We revise and slightly generalize some variational problems related to the “informational approach” in the classical optimization problem for automatic control systems which was popular from 1970–1990. We find extremals for various degenerated (derivative independent) functionals and propose some interpretations of obtained minimax [...] Read more.
We revise and slightly generalize some variational problems related to the “informational approach” in the classical optimization problem for automatic control systems which was popular from 1970–1990. We find extremals for various degenerated (derivative independent) functionals and propose some interpretations of obtained minimax relations. The main example of such functionals is given by the Gelfand–Pinsker–Yaglom formula for the information quantity contained in one random process in another one. We find some balance relations in a linear stationary one-dimensional system with Gaussian signal and interpret them in terms of Legendre duality. Full article
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On Higher Order Structures in Thermodynamics
by Valentin Lychagin and Mikhail Roop
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1147; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101147 - 12 Oct 2020
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We present the development of the approach to thermodynamics based on measurement. First of all, we recall that considering classical thermodynamics as a theory of measurement of extensive variables one gets the description of thermodynamic states as Legendrian or Lagrangian manifolds representing the [...] Read more.
We present the development of the approach to thermodynamics based on measurement. First of all, we recall that considering classical thermodynamics as a theory of measurement of extensive variables one gets the description of thermodynamic states as Legendrian or Lagrangian manifolds representing the average of measurable quantities and extremal measures. Secondly, the variance of random vectors induces the Riemannian structures on the corresponding manifolds. Computing higher order central moments, one drives to the corresponding higher order structures, namely the cubic and the fourth order forms. The cubic form is responsible for the skewness of the extremal distribution. The condition for it to be zero gives us so-called symmetric processes. The positivity of the fourth order structure gives us an additional requirement to thermodynamic state. Full article
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Differential Invariants of Measurements, and Their Relation to Central Moments
by Eivind Schneider
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1118; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101118 - 03 Oct 2020
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Due to the principle of minimal information gain, the measurement of points in an affine space V determines a Legendrian submanifold of V×V*×R. Such Legendrian submanifolds are equipped with additional geometric structures that come from the central [...] Read more.
Due to the principle of minimal information gain, the measurement of points in an affine space V determines a Legendrian submanifold of V×V*×R. Such Legendrian submanifolds are equipped with additional geometric structures that come from the central moments of the underlying probability distributions and are invariant under the action of the group of affine transformations on V. We investigate the action of this group of affine transformations on Legendrian submanifolds of V×V*×R by giving a detailed overview of the structure of the algebra of scalar differential invariants, and we show how the scalar differential invariants can be constructed from the central moments. In the end, we view the results in the context of equilibrium thermodynamics of gases, and notice that the heat capacity is one of the differential invariants. Full article
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Optimal Thermodynamic Processes For Gases
by Alexei Kushner, Valentin Lychagin and Mikhail Roop
Entropy 2020, 22(4), 448; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22040448 - 15 Apr 2020
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In this paper, we consider an optimal control problem in the equilibrium thermodynamics of gases. The thermodynamic state of the gas is given by a Legendrian submanifold in a contact thermodynamic space. Using Pontryagin’s maximum principle, we find a thermodynamic process in this [...] Read more.
In this paper, we consider an optimal control problem in the equilibrium thermodynamics of gases. The thermodynamic state of the gas is given by a Legendrian submanifold in a contact thermodynamic space. Using Pontryagin’s maximum principle, we find a thermodynamic process in this submanifold such that the gas maximizes the work functional. For ideal gases, this problem is shown to be integrable in Liouville’s sense and its solution is given by means of action-angle variables. For real gases considered to be a perturbation of ideal ones, the integrals are given asymptotically. Full article
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