[About the necessity of verifying the trustworthiness of some propositions of nonequilibrium thermodynamics].
Examples of systems are presented for which the Prigozhin's principle, the principle of a minimum of manufacture of entropy of a nonsolated system in a stationary condition on which many consequences of nonequilibrium thermodynamics are based, does not hold. Because the nonuniversality of this principle has been found, the reliability of many propositions of nonequilibrium thermodynamics is called into question. They have to be proved again without references to the Prigozhin's principle, and it is not ruled out that the inaccuracy of some postulates of nonequilibrium thermodynamics will be revealed, which can be of great practical importance in future.
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D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013816:Thermodynamics