Free Thermal Convection Driven by Nonlocal Effects
Condensed Matter
2009-10-22 v1 chem-ph
Abstract
We report and explain a convective phenomenon observed in molecular dynamics simulations that cannot be classified either as a hydrodynamics instability nor as a macroscopically forced convection. Two complementary arguments show that the velocity field by a thermalizing wall is proportional to the ratio between the heat flux and the pressure. This prediction is quantitatively corroborated by our simulations.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9411084,
title = {Free Thermal Convection Driven by Nonlocal Effects},
author = {Jorge Ibsen and Rodrigo Soto and Patricio Cordero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9411084},
year = {2009}
}
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