Simultaneous Brownian Motion of N Particles in a Temperature Gradient

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9 June 1997

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9706077

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.

Keywords

SIMULTANEOUS BROWNIAN MOTION
TEMPERATURE GRADIENT
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
THERMODYNAMIC
PARTICLES

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Version 1, 1997-06-09, ArXiv
Published version: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 250 (1-4), 253.

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