The equivalence between irreversibility and dissipation entails that the Onsager reciprocal relations hold unconditionally, requiring the part of the phenomenological matrix describing dissipative phenomena to be symmetric. The antisymmetric part of the phenomenological matrix corresponds to the Casimir’s variant of the reciprocal relations and describes reversible phenomena. Further, we discuss the relationship of the reversibility and entropy production, including the role of the level of description, and we use the chemotaxis as an illustrative example.

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不可逆性与耗散性等价的 Onsager-Casimir 互易关系


不可逆性和耗散之间的等价性意味着 Onsager 互易关系无条件成立，要求现象学矩阵中描述耗散现象的部分是对称的。现象学矩阵的反对称部分对应于倒数关系的卡西米尔变体，描述可逆现象。此外，我们讨论了可逆性和熵产生的关系，包括描述水平的作用，并使用趋化性作为说明性示例。