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This paper is devoted to study thermodynamic formalism for suspension flows defined over countable alphabets. We are mostly interested in the regularity properties of the pressure function. We establish conditions for the pressure function…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Godofredo Iommi , Thomas Jordan

Thermal forces drive several nonequilibrium phenomena able to set a fluid in motion without pressure gradients. Although the most celebrated effect is thermophoresis, also known as Ludwig-Soret effect, probably the simplest example where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Pietro Anzini , Zeno Filiberti , Alberto Parola

The thermodynamic formalism, which was first developed for dynamical systems and then applied to discrete Markov processes, turns out to be well suited for continuous time Markov processes as well, provided the definitions are interpreted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vivien Lecomte , Cecile Appert-Rolland , Frederic Van-Wijland

Conversations about weather, environment, health, cuisine, and even politics, all involve the word "temperature". It was an attempt to understand the working of heat engines that gave the temperature a clear definition. In this Note we put…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-23 Miroslav Grmela

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

In mechanics, common energy principles are based on fixed boundary conditions. However, in bridge engineering structures, it is usually necessary to adjust the boundary conditions to make the structure's internal force reasonable and save…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Lukai Xiang

For a dense and strongly interacting system, such as a nucleus or a strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma, the foundation of hydrodynamics can be better found in the quantum description of constituents moving in the strong mean fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-08 Cheuk-Yin Wong

We examine the dependence of a thermodynamic potential of a fluid on the geometry of its container. If motion invariance, continuity, and additivity of the potential are fulfilled, only four morphometric measures are needed to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 P. -M. König , R. Roth , K. R. Mecke

We demonstrate that the mechanically-defined "isothermal" compressibility behaves as a thermodynamic-like response function for suspensions of active Brownian particles. The compressibility computed from the active pressure - a combination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Austin R. Dulaney , Stewart A. Mallory , John F. Brady

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

The paper deals with the fundamental problem of a modeling of the physical, in particular, thermal hydraulic processes, in various media of fractal structure of the natural, technological and technical systems and devices. The examples of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Ivan V. Kazachkov

Thermodynamics and dynamics of a classical two-dimensional system with dipole-like isotropic repulsive interactions are studied systematically using extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations supplemented by appropriate theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Sergey Khrapak , Nikita Kryuchkov , Stanislav Yurchenko

We study how confining the equilibrium hard-sphere fluid to restrictive one- and two-dimensional channels with smooth interacting walls modifies its structure, dynamics, and entropy using molecular dynamics and transition-matrix Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeetain Mittal , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

The transition from laminar to turbulent flow has been a notorious riddle in fluid dynamics since the nineteenth century. Hydrodynamic instabilities were regarded as a cause for the onset of turbulence, but their theoretical investigation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-02 Michael Eckert

In the present study, we conduct direct numerical simulations of two-way force-coupled particle-laden compressible turbulent boundary layers at the free-stream Mach number of 2.0 for the purpose of examining the effects of particles on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Ming Yu , Yibin Du , Qian Wang , Siwei Dong , Xianxu Yuan

This review paper is devoted to a presentation of recent progress in wave turbulence. I first present the context and state of the art of this field of research both experimentally and theoretically. I then focus on the case of wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-05-05 Eric Falcon

We present the relatively less known thermodynamic concept of exergy in the context of ecology and sustainability. To this end, we first very briefly outline thermodynamics as it arose historically via engineering studies. This enables us…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Göran Wall , Dilip G. Banhatti

It is a common view in philosophy of physics that thermodynamics is a non-fundamental theory. This is motivated in particular by the fact that thermodynamics is considered to be a paradigmatic example for a theory that can be reduced to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Michael te Vrugt , Paul Needham , Georg J. Schmitz

We consider two spin-1/2 particles with isotropic Heisenberg interaction, as the working substance of a quantum heat engine. We observe a frictional effect on the adiabatic branches of the heat cycle, which arises due to an inhomogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 George Thomas , Ramandeep S. Johal

We use a metric invariant stress theory of continuum mechanics to formulate a simple generalization of the the basic variables of electrodynamics and Maxwell's equations to general differentiable manifolds of any dimension, thus viewing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Reuven Segev