Comment on "A classical test of the entropy production function. Compatibility with kinetic laws and local equilibrium".

Abstract

In this comment we present an argument by which we disagree with the above-reproduced conclusions of Chasteen and Spitzer. To this end it is sufficient to examine the particular case of heat transfer in a system identical with that described by them. Such a system consists of an infinite flat plate of pure solid of thickness L. The faces are maintained at constant and equal temperatures, T2, by contact with isothermal surroundings.