In thermodynamics, contrived thermodynamics refers to contrived versions of thermodynamics, where one unknowingly takes conclusions and results specific to one field of thermodynamics, and applies them in a contrived way to different field in which the originally-assumed conditions do not hold or are not met.
Most of the applications of statistical mechanics, a subject generally valid for systems which meet the Boltzmann chaos assumption, outside of non ideal gas systems, can generally be considered a contrived type of thermodynamics.
Another example of contrived thermodynamics is the attempt to blend telegraph wire coding probability theory, a field otherwise known as information theory, with standard piston and cylinder heat engine theory, a field otherwise known as thermodynamics, resulting in a contrived claimed to be field of study called “information theoretic thermodynamics”, information theory thermodynamics, or information thermodynamics, which includes terms such as Shannon entropy and is well represented by the MaxEnt school.
