Dirac Structures and Variational Formulation of Thermodynamics for Open Systems

Hiroaki Yoshimura*, François Gay-Balmaz

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Abstract

In this paper, we make a review of our recent development of Dirac structures and the associated variational formulation for nonequilibrium thermodynamics (see, [15, 16]). We specifically focus on the case of simple and open systems, in which the thermodynamic state is represented by one single entropy and the transfer of matter and heat with the exterior is included. We clarify the geometric structure by introducing an induced Dirac structure on the covariant Pontryagin bundle and then develop the associated dynamical system (the port-Dirac systems) in the context of time-dependent nonholonomic systems with nonlinear constraints of thermodynamic type. We also present the variational structure associated with the Dirac formulation in the context of the generalized Lagrange-d’Alembert-Pontryagin principle.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGeometric Structures of Statistical Physics, Information Geometry, and Learning - SPIGL’20
EditorsFrédéric Barbaresco, Frank Nielsen
PublisherSpringer
Pages221-246
Number of pages26
ISBN (Print)9783030779566
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventWorkshop on Joint Structures and Common Foundations of Statistical Physics, Information Geometry and Inference for Learning, SPIGL 2020 - Les Houches, France
Duration: 2020 Jul 272020 Jul 31

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics
Volume361
ISSN (Print)2194-1009
ISSN (Electronic)2194-1017

Conference

ConferenceWorkshop on Joint Structures and Common Foundations of Statistical Physics, Information Geometry and Inference for Learning, SPIGL 2020
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLes Houches
Period20/7/2720/7/31

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics(all)

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