Nonlinear heat equation and two-level diffusion

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(02)80037-4MaRDI QIDQ1853832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Wojnar

Publication date 22 January 2003

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0034-4877(02)80037-4

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionPrigogine conjectureprotein motorstwo-level systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Review text

The author studies the interaction between the diffusion of a Brownian particle which can occupy two energy levels, and the heat flow described by the Streater nonlinear heat equation is analysed [cf. \textit{R. F. Streater}, Rep. Math. Phys. 40, No. 3, 557--564 (1997; Zbl 0907.60094)]. Particularly, the Streater effect in which the potential energy of a particle is converted to heat due to friction is taken into account. It is shown that for such a continuum, the firs law of thermodynamics and the modified form of the second law hold true, while the Prigogine conjecture is not satisfied even in the approximation known from a one level diffusion. Also, the behaviour of a system in isothermal conditions beyond a detailed balance is considered.

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Cited in

(4)

• Nonlinear heat equations
• On nonlinear heat equations and diffusion in porous media
• Two-level diffusion, random walk and uniqueness
• Nonlinear heat equation and thermodiffusion

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