From billiards to thermodynamics

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2012.09.004MaRDI QIDQ2629465zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timothy Chumley, Scott Cook, Renato Feres

Publication date 6 July 2016

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5878

zbMATH Keywords

random billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

Abstract: We explore some beginning steps in stochastic thermodynamics of billiard-like mechanical systems by introducing extremely simple and explicit random mechanical processes capable of exhibiting steady-state irreversible thermodynamical behavior. In particular, we describe a Markov chain model of a minimalistic heat engine and numerically study its operation and efficiency.

Review text

The authors propose, describe, and investigate numerically a simple stochastic version of billiard systems arising from Hamiltonian mechanical models. In these interacting particles systems, the mechanism of elastic collisions of a point mass with a random thermostat is modeled by a Markov chain process.

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