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We investigate field-line separation in strong MHD turbulence analytically and with direct numerical simulations. We find that in the static-magnetic-field approximation the thermal conductivity in galaxy clusters is reduced by a factor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Jason L. Maron

Heat conduction in a random packing of hard spheres is studied by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. We find a hard-sphere random packing shows higher thermal conductivity than a crystalline packing with same packing fraction.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-15 Shigenori Matsumoto , Tomoaki Nogawa , Takashi Shimada , Nobuyasu Ito

Simulations are reported to investigate solid superheating and liquid supercooling of two-dimensional (2D) systems with a Yukawa interparticle potential. Motivated by experiments where a dusty plasma is heated and then cooled suddenly, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 Yan Feng , Bin Liu , J. Goree

We present a non-invasive technique for measuring the thermal conductivity of fragile and sensitive materials. In the context of planet formation research, the investigation of the thermal conductivity of porous dust aggregates provide…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Maya Krause , Jürgen Blum , Yuri V. Skorov , Mario Trieloff

In this study, we examine thermal conductivity and the thermal Hall effect in electron-ion plasmas relevant to hot neutron stars, white dwarfs, and binary neutron star mergers, focusing on densities found in the outer crusts of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

The dynamics of weakly magnetized collisionless plasmas in the presence of an imposed temperature gradient along an ambient magnetic field is explored with particle-in-cell simulations and modeling. Two thermal reservoirs at different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 G. T. Roberg-Clark , J. F. Drake , C. S. Reynolds , M. Swisdak

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to model the thermal properties of a fluid containing solid nanoparticles (nanofluid). The flexibility of molecular simulation allows us to consider the effects of particle mass, particle-particle and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Mihail Vladkov , J. -L. Barrat

$\mathit{Context.}$ The thermal conductivity of highly porous dust aggregates is a key parameter for many subjects in planetary science; however, it is not yet fully understood. $\mathit{Aims.}$ In this study, we investigate the thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Sota Arakawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Akimasa Kataoka , Taishi Nakamoto

We study the nonequlibrium state of heat conduction in a one-dimensional system of hard point particles of unequal masses interacting through elastic collisions. A BBGKY-type formulation is presented and some exact results are obtained from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Abhishek Dhar

In a classical ideal plasma, a magnetic field is known to reduce the heat conductivity perpendicular to the field whereas it does not alter the one along the field. Here we show that, in strongly correlated plasmas that are observed at high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Torben Ott , Michael Bonitz , Zoltan Donko

X-ray observations of hot gas in galaxy clusters often show steeper temperature gradients across cold fronts -- contact discontinuities, driven by the differential gas motions. These sharp (a few kpc wide) surface brightness/temperature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-02 S. Komarov , E. Churazov , A. Schekochihin , J. ZuHone

Dusty plasma can exist in a wide range, from the laboratory to Saturn's rings. The coupling parameter plays a very important role in diagnosing dusty plasma. There are two ways to deal analytically with the effect of coupling in plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 J. Goswami , S. S. Kausik

We study a class of heat engines including Feynman's ratchet, which exhibits a directed motion of a particle in nonequilibrium steady states maintained by two heat baths. We measure heat transfer from each heat bath separately, and average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa

Transport properties in gases are significantly affected by temperature. In previous works it has been shown that when the thermal agitation in a gas is high enough, such that relativistic effects become relevant, heat dissipation is driven…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-13 A. L. Garcia-Perciante , A. Sandoval-Villalbazo , D. Brun-Battistini

The static electrical conductivity of non-ideal, dense, partially ionized helium plasma was calculated over a wide range of plasma parameters: temperatures $1\cdot 10^{4}\textrm{K} \lesssim T \lesssim 1\cdot 10^{5}\textrm{K}$ and mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 V. A. Sreckovic , Lj. M. Ignjatovic , A. A. Mihajlov , M. S. Dimitrijevic

We propose a model with a quantized degree of freedom to study the heat transport in quasi-one dimensional system. Our simulations reveal three distinct temperature regimes. In particular, the intermediate regime is characterized by heat…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-Wen Mao , You-Quan Li

Using nonequilibrium and equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate heat conduction in a momentum-conserving mesoscopic fluid modeled by multiparticle collision dynamics. Across quasi-two-dimensional (q-2D) to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rongxiang Luo , Jiaqi Wen , Juncheng Guo

Heat transport in a three-dimensional complex (dusty) plasma was experimentally studied in microgravity conditions using Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4) instrument on board the International Space Station (ISS). An extended suspension of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 V. Nosenko , S. Zhdanov , M. Pustylnik , H. M. Thomas , A. M. Lipaev , O. V. Novitskii

Thermal conductivities are routinely calculated in molecular dynamics simulations by keeping the boundaries at different temperatures and measuring the slope of the temperature profile in the bulk of the material, explicitly using Fourier's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-13 Yuanyang Ren , Kai Wu , David Cubero

The kinetic theory of dilute gases to first order in the gradients yields linear relations between forces and fluxes. The heat flux for the relativistic gas has been shown to be related not only to the temperature gradient but also to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-21 A. L. Garcia-Perciante , A. R. Mendez