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The foregoing stability criteria based on the behaviour of the system close to a given reference state, either steady or unsteady, are only particular cases of the more general stability conditions involving finite deviations as well. Likewise, the latter may be interpreted as arising from some evolution criterion still more general.
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P. Glansdorff and I. Prigogine, Thermodynamic Theory of Structure Stability and Fluctuations, Wiley, Interscience, London, 1971.
Chandrasekhar, Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961.
J.C. Legros, Thèse de doctorat, Chimie Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1971.
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Glansdorff, P. (1971). The General Evolution Criterion. In: Thermodynamics in Contemporary Dynamics. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 74. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2844-2_7
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