Archimedes' principle for Brownian liquid

DOI10.1214/11-AAP765zbMATH Open1241.60041arXiv0912.5398MaRDI QIDQ657689FDOQ657689

Authors: K. Burdzy, Zhen-Qing Chen, Soumik Pal 

Publication date: 10 January 2012

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a family of hard core objects moving as independent Brownian motions confined to a vessel by reflection. These are subject to gravitational forces modeled by drifts. The stationary distribution for the process has many interesting implications, including an illustration of the Archimedes' principle. The analysis rests on constructing reflecting Brownian motion with drift in a general open connected domain and studying its stationary distribution. In dimension two we utilize known results about sphere packing.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5398

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zbMATH Keywords

stationary distributionsphere packingArchimedes' principlecentrifuge effectreflecting Brownian motion with driftsurface liquid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Brownian motion (60J65)

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