Approach to a stationary state in an external field

DOI10.1007/S10955-010-9976-XMaRDI QIDQ612018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angel Alastuey, Jaroslaw Piasecki

Publication date 3 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1011

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationdiffusionhydrodynamic modeout-of-equilibriumrelaxation processesstationary state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We study relaxation towards a stationary out of equilibrium state by analizing a one-dimensional stochastic process followed by a particle accelerated by an external field and propagating through a thermal bath. The effect of collisions is described within Botlzmann's kinetic theory. We present analytical solutions for the Maxwell gas and for the very hard particle model. The exponentially fast relaxation of the velocity distribution toward the stationary form is demonstrated. In the reference frame moving with constant drift velocity the hydrodynamic diffusive mode is shown to govern the distribution in the position space. We show that the exact value of the diffusion coefficient for any value of the field is correctly predicted by Green-Kubo autocorrelation formula generalized to the stationary state.

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