Category: Axel Kleidon

Entropy production of soil hydrological processes and its maximization

February 24, 2025 Admin No Comments

This paper was written Axel Kleidon, P. Porada, and S. J. Schymanski and published in 2011. The abstract states: “Hydrological processes are irreversible and produce entropy. Hence, the framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used here to describe them mathematically. This means ﬂows of water are written as functions of gradients in the gravitational and chemical…

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The Maximum Entropy Production Principle: Its Theoretical Foundations and Applications to the Earth System

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 Admin No Comments

This paper was written by Axel Kleidon and James Dyke and published in 2010. The abstract states: “The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate predictions for non-equilibrium states. We argue that this is because the MEP principle is an effective inference procedure that produces the best predictions from the…

Axel Kleidon, Earth Systems, Scientists, The Maximum Entropy Production Principle

Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems

February 24, 2025March 2, 2025 Admin No Comments

This paper was written by Axel Kleidon (pictured), Yadvinder Malhi, and Peter M. Cox and published in 2010. It serves as the introduction to a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences (volume 365, Issue 1545) that includes 16 articles. The authors include Kleidon, Adrian Bejan, Ralph Lorenz, and Roderick…

Axel Kleidon, Ecology, Scientists, The Maximum Entropy Production Principle

NET and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth and Beyond

February 23, 2025February 28, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by Axel Kleidon and Ralph Lorenz and published in 2005. It studies the application of concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to a variety of research topics. Emphasis is on the Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle and applications to Geosphere-Biosphere couplings. Written by leading researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, the book…

Axel Kleidon, Scientists, The Maximum Entropy Production Principle