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

DOI10.1023/A:1020402312727zbMATH Open1211.76093arXivcond-mat/0212637OpenAlexW1579389031WikidataQ101120235 ScholiaQ101120235MaRDI QIDQ1850889FDOQ1850889

Joel Lebowitz, Nikolai Chernov, Ya. G. Sinai

Publication date: 15 December 2002

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic limitideal gaspiston

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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