Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Gibbs free energy plays an important role in thermodynamics and has strong connection with PDE, Dynamical system. The results about Gibbsfree energy in 2-Wasserstein metric space are known recently.First I will introduce some basic things, so the background knowledge isnot required. I will begin from the classic definition of Gibbs freeenergy functional and then move to the connection between Gibbs freeenergy and the Fokker-Planck equation, random perturbation of gradientsystems. Second, I will go reversely: from a dynamical system to thegeneralized Gibbs free energy functional. I will also talk about animportant property of the Gibbs free energy functional: TheFokker-Planck equation is the gradient flux of Gibbs free energyfunctional in 2-Wasserstein metric.So it is natural to consider a question: In topological dynamical systemand lattice dynamical system, could we give the similar definition ofGibbs free energy, Fokker-Planck equation and so on? If time allowed, Iwill basicly introduce some of my results in these topics.