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Diffusion limit for a kinetic equation with a thermostatted interface

Mathematical Physics 2019-03-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Probability

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 TT 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 ρ(t,y)\rho(t,y) of a heat equation with the boundary condition ρ(t,0)T\rho(t,0)\equiv T.

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@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}
}
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