Latent heat and the Fourier law
Statistical Mechanics
2016-04-20 v1
Abstract
We present computer simulations run with a stochastic cellular automaton which describes particle systems connected to reservoirs which keep two different densities at the endpoints. We fix the parameters so that there is a phase transition (of the van der Waals type) and observe that if the densities at the boundaries are metastable then, after a transient, the system reaches an apparently stationary regime where the current flows from the reservoir with smaller density to the one with larger density.
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@article{arxiv.1603.04769,
title = {Latent heat and the Fourier law},
author = {Matteo Colangeli and Anna De Masi and Errico Presutti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04769},
year = {2016}
}