Rectification of thermal fluctuations in ideal gases
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We calculate the systematic average speed of the adiabatic piston and a thermal Brownian motor, introduced in [Van den Broeck, Kawai and Meurs, \emph{Microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor}, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.], by an expansion of the Boltzmann equation and compare with the exact numerical solution.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407180,
title = {Rectification of thermal fluctuations in ideal gases},
author = {P. Meurs and C. Van den Broeck and A. Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407180},
year = {2009}
}
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18 pages