Thermodynamics with thermodynamic variable first-passage time. II. Dynamics of explosive boiling of superheated liquid, critical indices, fractional calculus

Abstract

Within the framework of stochastic first-passage time thermodynamics (TFPT) and power-law distributions (Mittag-Leffler and Levy), the appearance of fractional Caputo derivatives in hydrodynamic equations is substantiated. The developed framework is applied to the problem of explosive boiling of a superheated liquid: an integral formula for nonlocal entropy production is derived and the critical index of dissipation intensity is calculated, along with qualitative changes in these parameters upon introducing external pressure. It is found that dissipation at a given instant is strictly determined by the integral history of the macroscopic matter flow J(t) over the entire evolutionary interval up to the moment of phase explosion. The calculated critical dissipation index z strictly describes the kinetic catastrophe and the violation of Prigogine's minimum entropy production principle near spinodals.