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Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes
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Mass transfer modeling
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Mutual diffusion in binary polymer mixtures as measured by dynamic light scattering
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Heat transfer and entropy generation in the parallel plate flow of a power-law fluid with asymmetric convective cooling
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Natural selection and thermodynamic optimality
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On the statistical mechanics of life: Schrödinger revisited
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