A simple piston problem in one dimension

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/19/10/005MaRDI QIDQ3417575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 29 January 2007

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605458

zbMATH Keywords

elastic collisonsgas chamberhard core pistonsoft core piston

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Averaging method for ordinary differential equations (34C29) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We study a heavy piston that separates finitely many ideal gas particles moving inside a one-dimensional gas chamber. Using averaging techniques, we prove precise rates of convergence of the actual motions of the piston to its averaged behavior. The convergence is uniform over all initial conditions in a compact set. The results extend earlier work by Sinai and Neishtadt, who determined that the averaged behavior is periodic oscillation. In addition, we investigate the piston system when the particle interactions have been smoothed. The convergence to the averaged behavior again takes place uniformly, both over initial conditions and over the amount of smoothing.

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