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By tailoring the geometry of the upper boundary in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection we manipulate the boundary layer -- interior flow interaction, and examine the heat transport using the Lattice Boltzmann method. For fixed amplitude…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-14 Srikanth Toppaladoddi , Sauro Succi , John S. Wettlaufer

According to the Landauer principle, any logically irreversible process accompanies entropy production, which results in heat dissipation in the environment. Erasing of information, one of the primary logically irreversible processes, has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Avijit Misra , Tanmoy Pandit , Goutam Paul

Using the framework of stochastic thermodynamics we study heat production related to the stochastic motion of a particle driven by repulsive, nonlinear, time-delayed feedback. Recently it has been shown that this type of feedback can lead…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-07 Robin A. Kopp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We study the full Navier--Stokes--Fourier system governing the motion of a general viscous, heat-conducting, and compressible fluid subject to stochastic perturbation. The system is supplemented with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Dominic Breit , Eduard Feireisl , Martina Hofmanová

We derive a time-dependent master equation for an externally driven system whose subsystems weakly interact with each other and locally connect to the thermal reservoirs. The nonadiabatic equation obtained here can be viewed as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Chao Jiang , Lei Shao

We use colloidal suspensions encapsulated in emulsion droplets to model confined glass-forming liquids with tunable boundary mobility. We show dynamics in these idealized systems are governed by physical interactions with the boundary.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-29 Gary L. Hunter , Kazem V. Edmond , Eric R. Weeks

We consider a parabolic non-local free boundary problem that has been derived as a limit of a bulk-surface reaction-diffusion system which models cell polarization. The authors have justified the well-posedness of this problem and have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Anna Logioti , Barbara Niethammer , Matthias Röger , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We propose a stochastic order parameter equation for describing phase coexistence in steady heat conduction near equilibrium. By analyzing the stochastic dynamics with a non-equilibrium adiabatic boundary condition, where total energy is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-23 Shin-ichi Sasa , Naoko Nakagawa , Masato Itami , Yohei Nakayama

We study the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a single particle with two available energy levels, in contact with a classical (Maxwell-Boltzmann) or quantum (Bose-Einstein) heat bath. The particle can undergo transitions between the levels…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Niraj Kumar , Christian Van den Broeck , Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg

In this article, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the solution to a one-dimensional stochastic heat equation with random nonlinear term generated by a stationary, ergodic random field. We extend the well-known central limit theorem…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Lu Xu

Classical thermodynamics aimed to quantify the efficiency of thermodynamic engines by bounding the maximal amount of mechanical energy produced compared to the amount of heat required. While this was accomplished early on, by Carnot and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Rui Fu , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

The paper studies a dynamic blocking problem, motivated by a model of optimal fire confinement. While the fire can expand with unit speed in all directions, barriers are constructed in real time. An optimal strategy is sought, minimizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri

We prove the hydrodynamic limit for a particle system in which particles may have different velocities. We assume that we have two infinite reservoirs of particles at the boundary: this is the so-called boundary driven process. The dynamics…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Alexandre B. Simas

Various unusual behaviors of artificial materials are governed by their topological properties, among which the edge state at the boundary of a photonic or phononic lattice has been captivated as a popular notion. However, this remarkable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Minghong Qi , Dong Wang , Pei-Chao Cao , Xue-Feng Zhu , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Hongsheng Chen , Ying Li

We derive the stochastic master equations which describe the evolution of open quantum systems in contact with a heat bath and undergoing indirect measurements. These equations are obtained as a limit of a quantum repeated measurement model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S Attal , C Pellegrini

Periodically driven coherent conductors provide a universal platform for the development of quantum transport devices. Here, we lay down a comprehensive theory to describe the thermodynamics of these systems. We first focus on moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Elina Potanina , Christian Flindt , Michael Moskalets , Kay Brandner

Turbulent convection plays a crucial role in many natural environments, ranging from Earth ocean, mantle and outer core, to various astrophysical systems. For such flows with extremely strong thermal driving, an ultimate scaling was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-09 Shufan Zou , Yantao Yang

In this paper, a numerical analysis of boundary layer flow and heat transfer in Jeffrey fluid over a moving flat plate with Newtonian Heating have been presented. The governing partial differential equations were reduced to a transformed…

A fundamental problem in modern thermodynamics is how a molecular-scale machine performs useful work, while operating away from thermal equilibrium without excessive dissipation. To this end, we derive a friction tensor that induces a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-09 David A. Sivak , Gavin E. Crooks

We develop a general stochastic thermodynamics of RLC electrical networks built on top of a graph-theoretical representation of the dynamics commonly used by engineers. The network is: open, as it contains resistors and current and voltage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Nahuel Freitas , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Massimiliano Esposito