Non-equilibrium critical behavior: an extended irreversible thermodynamics approach (Q861384)

For thermodynamic theory of irreversibility processes the authors have developed a formalism in which correlation functions are obtained as field averages of the associated functions. Applying such formalism an attempt is made to find out whether the resulting correlation functions will inherit the integrability, generalized homogeneity and scaling laws properties of its parent potentials with subsequent usage of these correlation functions to study the behaviour of macroscopic systems far from equilibrium, especially in the neighbourhood of critical points or dynamic phase transitions. As working example it is considered the mono-critical behaviour of a non-equilibrium binary fluid mixture close to its consolute point.