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  2. Rayleigh dissipation function - Wikipedia

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    This function represents half of the rate of energy dissipation of the system through friction. The force of friction is negative the velocity gradient of the dissipation function, F → f = − ∇ v R ( v ) {\displaystyle {\vec {F}}_{f}=-\nabla _{v}R(v)} , analogous to a force being equal to the negative position gradient of a potential.

  3. Extremal principles in non-equilibrium thermodynamics

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    Rayleigh (1873) [38] (and in Sections 81 and 345 of Rayleigh (1896/1926) [28]) introduced the dissipation function for the description of dissipative processes involving viscosity. More general versions of this function have been used by many subsequent investigators of the nature of dissipative processes and dynamical structures.

  4. Dissipation function - Wikipedia

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    Dissipation function may refer to Rayleigh's dissipation function; Dissipation function under the fluctuation theorem This page was last edited on 28 ...

  5. Double diffusive convection - Wikipedia

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    It is seen from the figure that finger characteristics such as width, evolution pattern are a function of Rayleigh numbers. Double diffusive convection is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that describes a form of convection driven by two different density gradients, which have different rates of diffusion. [2]

  6. Paradigms of Human Memory - Wikipedia

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    The clip featuring Jeff, Britta, and Abed at the Halloween party (a flashback to "Epidemiology") was not filmed together with the original episode, and the set had to be recreated. [6] The episode's end tag is an animated scene depicting one of the Dean's fantasies; [ 7 ] Harmon explained in a Reddit AMA that the clip was created by Justin ...

  7. Rayleigh distribution - Wikipedia

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    The distribution is named after Lord Rayleigh (/ ˈ r eɪ l i /). [1] A Rayleigh distribution is often observed when the overall magnitude of a vector in the plane is related to its directional components. One example where the Rayleigh distribution naturally arises is when wind velocity is analyzed in two dimensions.

  8. Loschmidt's paradox - Wikipedia

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    One approach to handling Loschmidt's paradox is the fluctuation theorem, derived heuristically by Denis Evans and Debra Searles, which gives a numerical estimate of the probability that a system away from equilibrium will have a certain value for the dissipation function (often an entropy like property) over a certain amount of time. [5]

  9. Plateau–Rayleigh instability - Wikipedia

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    Three examples of droplet detachment for different fluids: (left) water, (center) glycerol, (right) a solution of PEG in water. In fluid dynamics, the Plateau–Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability, explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets with the same total volume but less surface area per droplet.