A Nonlinear Map for the Decay to Equilibrium of Ideal Gases
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2011-12-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Dynamical Systems
Abstract
An operator that governs the discrete time evolution of the velocity distribution of an out-of-equilibrium ideal gas will be presented. This nonlinear map, which conserves the momentum and the energy of the ideal gas, has the Maxwellian Velocity Distribution (MVD) as an asymptotic equilibrium. Moreover, the system displays the increasing of the entropy during the decay to the MVD.
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@article{arxiv.1108.1901,
title = {A Nonlinear Map for the Decay to Equilibrium of Ideal Gases},
author = {Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz and Elyas Shivanian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.1901},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial overlap with 1105.4813