Energetically Open Systems Research Network Study

物理科学中出现的概念框架，如非平衡统计力学和热力学、协同学、混沌和动力系统理论，对新兴的复杂性科学具有开创性意义。这项研究将为建立一个网络奠定基础，将澳大利亚和海外对这些基本概念的研究联系起来，并将其应用于对地球的长期可持续性至关重要的熵产生系统——海洋、大气、生物圈、无二氧化碳能源生产、空间和太阳能环境。该网络将促进年轻研究人员的发展，并与诸如CSIRO复杂系统科学中心等更广泛的复杂系统网络相连接。

Conceptual frameworks arising in the physical sciences, such as non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, synergetics, chaos and dynamical systems theory, are seminal in the emerging science of complexity. This study will lay the groundwork for a network to link Australian and overseas research on these fundamental concepts, and their application within the context of entropy-producing systems vital to the long-term sustainability of the earth - oceans, atmosphere, biosphere, CO2-free energy production, space and solar environment. The network would facilitate the development of young investigators and be linked into wider complex systems networks such as the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science.