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The dynamics of the transported powder determines the functionality and safety of pneumatic conveying systems. The relation between the carrier gas flow, induced by the flown-through geometry, and the powder flow pattern is not clear yet…
The steps essentially involved in the evaluation of transport coefficients in linear response theory using Kubo formulas are to relate the defining {\em retarded} correlation function to the corresponding {\em time-ordered} one and to…
We study heat transport in a gas of one-dimensional fermions in the presence of a small temperature gradient. At temperatures well below the Fermi energy there are two types of relaxation processes in this system, with dramatically…
The purpose of this work is to analyze the mathematical model governing motion of $n$-component, heat conducting reactive mixture of compressible gases. We prove sequential stability of weak variational entropy solutions when the state…
We consider a system of partial differential equations describing mass transport in a multicomponent isothermal compressible fluid. The diffusion fluxes obey the Fick-Onsager or Maxwell-Stefan closure approach. Mechanical forces result into…
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to calculate transport coefficients in a two-component plasma interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential. The thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, electrothermal coefficient,…
The goal of this note is to provide most of the technical details involved in the application of the Chapman-Enskog method to solve the revised Enskog equation to Navier-Stokes order. Explicit expressions for the transport coefficients and…
We derive the first and second-order expressions for the shear, the bulk viscosity, and the thermal conductivity of a relativistic hot boson gas in a magnetic field using the relativistic kinetic theory within the Chapman-Enskog method. The…
Standing slow-mode waves have been recently observed in flaring loops by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). By means of the coronal seismology technique transport coefficients in hot ($\sim$10…
We study slow collective motion at finite thermal excitations on the basis of linear response theory applied to the locally harmonic approximation. The transport coefficients for average motion, friction \gamma, inertia M and the local…
We investigate the transport of a single excitation through a chain of weakly coupled subunits. At both ends the chain is exposed to baths which are incorporated by means of a master equation in Lindblad form. This master equation is solved…
The Chapman--Enskog solution to the Enskog kinetic equation of polydisperse granular mixtures is revisited to determine the first-order contributions $\varpi_i$ to the partial temperatures. As expected, these quantities (which were…
We investigate the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity and spin diffusion in a two-dimensional Fermi gas with contact interactions, as realized in ultra-cold atomic gases. We describe the transport coefficients in terms of a…
Thermophoresis is a transport phenomenon induced by a temperature gradient. Very small objects dispersed in a fluid medium and in a temperature gradient present a non homogeneous steady density. Analysing this phenomenon within the…
In the present work we compute the enhancement in the long time transport coefficients due to correlated motion of fluid particles at high density. The fully wave vecor dependent extended mode coupling model is studied with the inclusion of…
We study the diffusion of tracers (self-diffusion) in a homogeneously cooling gas of dissipative particles, using the Green-Kubo relation and the Chapman-Enskog approach. The dissipative particle collisions are described by the coefficient…
A kinetic model for granular mixtures is considered to study three different non-equilibrium situations. The model is based on the equivalence between a gas of elastic hard spheres subjected to a drag force proportional to the particle…
Viscosity is a fundamental property of liquids and determines the diffusivity of suspended particles. A gradient in viscosity leads to a gradient in diffusivity, yet it is unknown whether such a gradient can lead to directed transport of…
Under many conditions, macroscopic grains flow like a fluid; kinetic theory pred icts continuum equations of motion for this granular fluid. In order to test the theory, we perform event driven molecular simulations of a two-dimensional gas…
The Enskog-Landau kinetic equation is considered to describe non-equilibrium processes of a mixture of charged hard spheres. This equation has been obtained in our previous papers by means of the non-equilibrium statistical operator method.…