The controversial piston in the thermodynamic limit

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 314, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 345-354

  Gruber, Christian ^a   Pache, Séverine ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Damping; Liouville equation; Mechanical equilibrium; Piston; Thermal equilibrium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; ENTROPY; PISTONS;

THERMODYNAMIC LIMIT;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036944752     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01152-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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