Considerations on non equilibrium thermodynamics of interactions

• Nature can be considered the first engineer.
• Nature designs open systems.
• Open systems are interacting systems.
• Interactions can be achieved by flows.

Nature can be considered the “first” engineer! For scientists and engineers, dynamics and evolution of complex systems are not easy to predict. A fundamental approach to study complex system is thermodynamics. But, the result is the origin of too many schools of thermodynamics with a consequent difficulty in communication between thermodynamicists and other scientists and, also, among themselves. The solution is to obtain a unified approach based on the fundamentals of physics. Here we suggest a possible unification of the schools of thermodynamics starting from two fundamental concepts of physics, interaction and flows.