Two-Time-Scale Relaxation towards Thermal Equilibrium of the Enigmatic Piston

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 1177-1206

  Gruber, Christian ^a   Pache, Séverine ^a   Lesne, Annick ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Liouville equation; Mechanical equilibrium; Perturbation; Thermal equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038505911     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024671710343     Document Type: Article

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