Thermodynamics of explosions
Nuclear Theory
2017-08-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We present our first attempts to formulate a thermodynamics-like description of explosions. The motivation is partly a fundamental interest in non-equilibrium statistical physics, partly the resemblance of an explosion to the late stages of a heavy-ion collision. We perform numerical simulations on a microscopic model of interacting billiard-ball like particles, and we analyse the results of such simulations trying to identify collective variables describing the degree of equilibrium during the explosion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0009009,
title = {Thermodynamics of explosions},
author = {Gregers Neergaard and Jakob P. Bondorf and Igor N. Mishustin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0009009},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages. Talk presented at "Bologna 2000 - Structure of the nucleus" international conference, May 29 - June 3, Bologna, Italy. Shortened version, to appear in the Proceedings