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Nonlinear Stresses and Temperatures in Transient Adiabatic and Shear Flows via Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics -- Three Definitions of Temperature

Chaotic Dynamics 2015-05-13 v3 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We compare nonlinear stresses and temperatures for adiabatic shear flows, using up to 262,144 particles, with those from corresponding homogeneous and inhomogeneous flows. Two varieties of kinetic temperature tensors are compared to the configurational temperatures. This comparison leads to an improved form for the local and instantaneous smooth-particle averaged stream velocity and to a recognition of rotational contributions to the configurational temperature.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1807,
  title  = {Nonlinear Stresses and Temperatures in Transient Adiabatic and Shear Flows via Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics -- Three Definitions of Temperature},
  author = {Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1807},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 8 figures, stimulated by Denis Evans' comments on Hoover et alii, Physical Review E 78, 046701 (2008). Augmented 30 January 2009 in response to referees' comments at Physical Review E