Onsager reciprocal relations
Relación de reciprocidad de Onsager
- Date
- 1931 · confidence high
- Place
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Credited to
- Lars Onsager
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Laws expressing the equality of certain cross-coefficients between flows and forces in thermodynamic systems out of equilibrium, derived by Lars Onsager from the time-reversibility of microscopic dynamics.
What it led to
- Foundation of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes
- The 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Onsager
- Applications in thermoelectricity and coupled transport processes
- Theoretical basis for the thermodynamics of biological systems out of equilibrium