Heat flow in a periodically forced, thermostatted chain II
Abstract
We derive a macroscopic heat equation for the temperature of a pinned harmonic chain subject to a periodic force at its right side and in contact with a heat bath at its left side. The microscopic dynamics in the bulk is given by the Hamiltonian equation of motion plus a reversal of the velocity of a particle occurring independently for each particle at exponential times, with rate . The latter produces a finite heat conductivity. Starting with an initial probability distribution for a chain of particles we compute the local temperature given by the expected value of the local energy and current. Scaling space and time diffusively yields, in the limit, the heat equation for the macroscopic temperature profile , . It is to be solved for initial conditions and specified , the temperature of the left heat reservoir and a fixed heat flux , entering the system at . is the work done by the periodic force which is computed explicitly for each .
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@article{arxiv.2209.12923,
title = {Heat flow in a periodically forced, thermostatted chain II},
author = {Tomasz Komorowski and Joel L. Lebowitz and Stefano Olla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12923},
year = {2023}
}