2023
DOI: 10.3390/foundations3030029
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Entropy Generation and Control: Criteria to Calculate Flow Optimization in Biological Systems

José Bicudo,
Pedro Nogueira-de-Sá,
José Chaui-Berlinck

Abstract: Living beings are composite thermodynamic systems in non-equilibrium conditions. Within this context, there are a number of thermodynamic potential differences (forces) between them and the surroundings, as well as internally. These forces lead to flows, which, ultimately, are essential to life itself, but, at the same time, are associated with entropy generation, i.e., a loss of useful work. The maintenance of homeostatic conditions, the tenet of physiology, demands the regulation of these flows by control of… Show more

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