Lecturer: Prof. Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Affiliation: Physics Department and INFN,
Sapienza University of Rome
Abstract:
In the context of driven diffusive systems, for
thermodynamic transformations over a large
but finite time window, we derive an expansion
of the energy balance. In particular, we
characterize the transformations which
minimize the energy dissipation and describe
the optimal correction to the quasi-static limit.
Surprisingly, in the case of transformations
between homogeneous equilibrium states of an
ideal gas, the optimal transformation is a
sequence of inhomogeneous equilibrium states.