a lack of equilibrium or a state of not being in equilibrium
2. biology
a state in which the rate of increase is not equal to the rate of decrease
adjective
3.
relating to a lack of equilibrium
Examples of 'nonequilibrium' in a sentence
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The local thermal nonequilibrium can explicitly describe the convective heat exchange between rock and fluids.
Liang Xue, Cheng Dai, Lei Wang, Xiaoxia Chen 2019, 'Analysis of Thermal Stimulation to Enhance Shale Gas Recovery through a Novel ConceptualModel', Geofluidshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4084356. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, the relation for nonequilibrium systems, including adaptive systems, are poorly understood.
Prabhat Shankar, Masatoshi Nishikawa, Tatsuo Shibata 2015, 'Adaptive Responses Limited by Intrinsic Noise', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0136095. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The unimodal relationships are the most interesting because they suggest dynamic, nonequilibrium community processes.
John H. Graham, Jeffrey J. Duda 2011, 'The Humpbacked Species Richness-Curve: A Contingent Rule for Community Ecology',International Journal of Ecologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/868426. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It might be especially useful for the study of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of biophysical systems.
François Gay-Balmaz, Hiroaki Yoshimura 2018, 'A Variational Formulation of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for Discrete Open Systemswith Mass and Heat Transfer', Entropyhttp://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/3/163. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We study the production of entropy in the context of a nonequilibrium chiral phase transition.
Christoph Herold, Apiwit Kittiratpattana, Chinorat Kobdaj, Ayut Limphirat, YupengYan, Marlene Nahrgang, Jan Steinheimer, Marcus Bleicher 2019, 'Entropy production and reheating at the chiral phase transition', Physics Letters Bhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319300930. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here, we investigate the amount of nonequilibrium resources needed for approximate cooling.
Henrik Wilming, Rodrigo Gallego 2017, 'Third Law of Thermodynamics as a Single Inequality', Physical Review Xhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041033. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This definition leads to statistical distributions of work that satisfy nonequilibrium work and fluctuation relations.
Christopher Jarzynski, H. T. Quan, Saar Rahav 2015, 'Quantum-Classical Correspondence Principle for Work Distributions', Physical Review Xhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031038. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All these results provide a deeper insight into the connection between adaptation and nonequilibrium.
Chen Jia, Minping Qian 2016, 'Nonequilibrium Enhances Adaptation Efficiency of Stochastic Biochemical Systems',PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0155838. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)