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Anomalous Pressure in Fluctuating Shear Flow

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We investigate how the pressure in fluctuating shear flow depends on the shear rate SS and on the system size LL by studying fluctuating hydrodynamics under shear conditions. We derive anomalous forms of the pressure for two limiting values of the dimensionless parameter λ=SL2/ν\lambda=SL^2/\nu, where ν\nu is the kinematic viscosity. In the case λ1\lambda \ll 1, the pressure is not an intensive quantity because of the influence of the long-range spatial correlations of momentum fluctuations. In the other limit λ1\lambda \gg 1, the long-range correlations are suppressed at large distances, and the pressure is intensive. In this case, however, there is the interesting effect that the non-equilibrium correction to the pressure is proportional to S3/2S^{3/2}, which was previously obtained with the projection operator method [K. Kawasaki and J. D. Gunton, Phys. Rev. {\bf A 8}, 2048, (1973)].

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0211304,
  title  = {Anomalous Pressure in Fluctuating Shear Flow},
  author = {Hirofumi Wada and Shin-ichi Sasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0211304},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Breakdown of the intensivity of pressure is emphasized. Fig.1 and references added; accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. E

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