Diffusion limit for a kinetic equation with a thermostatted interface
Mathematical Physics
2019-03-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics
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Abstract
We consider a linear phonon Boltzmann equation with a reflecting/transmitting/absorbing interface. This equation appears as the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the energy density function of a harmonic chain of oscillators with inter-particle stochastic scattering in the presence of a heat bath at temperature in contact with one oscillator at the origin. We prove that under the diffusive scaling the solutions of the phonon equation tend to the solution of a heat equation with the boundary condition .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.02621,
title = {Diffusion limit for a kinetic equation with a thermostatted interface},
author = {Giada Basile and Tomasz Komorowski and Stefano Olla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02621},
year = {2019}
}