Scaling dynamics of a massive piston in a cube filled with ideal gas: exact results

DOI10.1023/A:1020402312727MaRDI QIDQ1850889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joel Lebowitz, Nikolai Chernov, Ya. G. Sinai

Publication date 15 December 2002

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212637

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic limitideal gaspiston

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

Abstract: We continue the study of the time evolution of a system consisting of a piston in a cubical container of large size $L$ filled with an ideal gas. The piston has mass $Msim{L}^2$ and undergoes elastic collisions with $Nsim{L}^3$ gas particles of mass $m$. In a previous paper, Lebowitz, Piasecki and Sinai considered a scaling regime, with time and space scaled by $L$, in which they argued heuristically that the motion of the piston and the one particle distribution of the gas satisfy autonomous coupled differential equations. Here we state exact results and sketch proofs for this behavior.

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