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Local and global equilibrium states of composite thermodynamic systems are discussed from a phenomenological "Gibbsian" point of view with special emphasis on the principle of minimum entropy production, starting from a system of linear differential equations modelling the evolution of such systems from local to global equilibrium or steady states caused by diffusion.
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Dress, A. (1983). Global equilibria and steady states of discrete networks, according to classical thermodynamics. In: Blanchard, P., Streit, L. (eds) Dynamics and Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1031. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0072110
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