Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The reformulation of nonequilibirum thermodynamics, to include the treatment of thermodynamic fluctuations, is applied to the hydrodynamic fluctuations of a simple fluid. It is shown that the nonequilibrium thermodynamic scheme leads to the explicit form of the Fokker-Planck equation which describes the time behaviour of the probability distribution function of these hydrodynamic fluctuations as well as the irreversible processes which are connected with this behaviour.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9909137,
title = {Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamic Fluctuations},
author = {J. M. Rubi and P. Mazur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9909137},
year = {2007}
}