Dissipative system
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A dissipative system is a thermodynamically open system which is operating out of, and often far from, thermodynamic equilibrium in an environment with which it exchanges energy and matter.
A dissipative structure is a dissipative system that has a dynamical régime that is in some sense in a reproducible steady state. This reproducible steady state may be reached by natural evolution of the system, by artifice, or by a combination of these two.
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See also
- Conservation equation
- Complex system
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Extremal principles in non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Autowave
- Self-organization
- Information metabolism
- Autocatalytic reactions and order creation
- Dynamical system
- Autopoiesis
- Relational order theories
- Loschmidt's paradox
- Viable System Theory
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