Simultaneous Brownian Motion of N Particles in a Temperature Gradient
Condensed Matter
2016-08-15 v1
Abstract
A system of N Brownian particles suspended in a nonuniform heat bath is treated as a thermodynamic system whith internal degrees of freedom, in this case their velocities and coordinates. Applying the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, one then easily obtains the Fokker-Planck equation for simultaneous Brownian motion of N particles in a temperature gradient. This equation accounts for couplings in the motion as a result of hydrodynamic interactions between particles.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9706077,
title = {Simultaneous Brownian Motion of N Particles in a Temperature Gradient},
author = {J. M. Rubí and P. Mazur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9706077},
year = {2016}
}
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