The present paper considers the conditions for minimum entropy production in thermodynamic processes at a given mean intensity of fluxes and at fixed coefficients of kinetics equations, as well as the conditions for the optimum duration of the process.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 89, No. 5, pp. 1071–1082, September–October, 2016.
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Tsirlin, A.M. Minimum Dissipation Processes in Irreversible Thermodynamics. J Eng Phys Thermophy 89, 1067–1078 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-016-1469-6
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