Dynamics of a massive piston in an ideal gas

DOI10.1070/RM2002V057N06ABEH000572zbMATH Open1046.37056arXivcond-mat/0301163OpenAlexW2050363508MaRDI QIDQ4816627FDOQ4816627

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

Publication date: 10 September 2004

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a dynamical system consisting of a massive 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 $Nsim{L}^3$ non-interacting gas particles of mass $m=1$. We find that, under suitable initial conditions, there is, in the limit $Loinfty$, a scaling regime with time and space scaled by $L$, in which the motion of the piston and the one particle distribution of the gas satisfy autonomous coupled equations (hydrodynamical equations), so that the mechanical trajectory of the piston converges, in probability, to the solution of the hydrodynamical equations for a certain period of time. We also discuss heuristically the dynamics of the system on longer intervals of time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301163

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zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsevolution systemideal gasprobabilistic estimatesautonomous coupled equationsdistribution of gas particlesequilibrium statistical mechancismassive piston in a cubic containernoninteracting gas particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

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