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dissipative system
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dissipative system  (ds-ptv)
See under open system.


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Abraham, & Shaw, 1990; Thelen & Smith, 1994), self-organization (Maturana & Varela, 1992), theory of nonequilibrium phase transition (Haken, 1984, 1987), neural nets (Levine, 1991, 1995; Levine, Leven, & Prueitt, 1992), fractals (Lauwerier, 1991; Mandelbrot, 1982), catastrophe theory (Arnold, 1986; Thorn, 1972/1975; Zeeman, 1977), and theory of dissipative structures (Prigogine, 1980, 1997; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984).
The authors discuss how clusters are used as dissipative structures, and how they are subsequently interrelated with fluctuation-free volume models, percolation systems and the Anharmonicity Concept.
Thermodynamic and Oscillations are maintained in the chemical nonequilibrium nonequilibrium state of the dissipative structure 11.
 
 
 
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