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Fluid Model for the Piezothermal Effect

Fluid Dynamics 2020-07-15 v1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

When a gas in an externally imposed potential field is compressed, temperature gradients appear. This has been called the piezothermal effect. It is possible to analytically calculate the time-dependent behavior of the piezothermal effect using a linearized fluid model. Quantitative differences between the fluid-model results and previous numerical calculations can be explained by the effects of viscosity and heat conductivity. The fluid model casts the piezothermal effect as a spectrum of buoyancy oscillations, which yields new physical insights into the effect.

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@article{arxiv.2006.13927,
  title  = {Fluid Model for the Piezothermal Effect},
  author = {E. J. Kolmes and V. I. Geyko and N. J. Fisch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13927},
  year   = {2020}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures

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