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Heat flow in a periodically forced, thermostatted chain II

Mathematical Physics 2023-05-03 v2 math.MP

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 γ\gamma. The latter produces a finite heat conductivity. Starting with an initial probability distribution for a chain of nn 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 n+n\to+\infty limit, the heat equation for the macroscopic temperature profile T(t,u),T(t,u), t>0t>0, u[0,1]u \in [0,1]. It is to be solved for initial conditions T(0,u)T(0,u) and specified T(t,0)=TT(t,0)=T_-, the temperature of the left heat reservoir and a fixed heat flux JJ, entering the system at u=1u=1. JJ is the work done by the periodic force which is computed explicitly for each nn.

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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}
}