Issues of Teaching Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Elements in Higher Technical Educational Institutions

In the article, out-of-balance situations arising due to the exchange of energy and matter with the external environment in open systems are described. A comparative analysis of the thermodynamics of linear and nonlinear non-equilibrium states of irreversible processes is presented. As a result of the decrease of entropy in open systems with a strong unbalanced state, the formation of self-ordered spatial and temporal dissipative structures from states of disorder or chaos in the system has been shown.