From the adiabatic piston to macroscopic motion induced by fluctuations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 463-472

  Piasecki, J ^a   Gruber, Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0032655562     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00553-6     Document Type: Article

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