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Reply to "Comment on 'Dynamically maintained steady-state pressure gradients' "
1Department of Physics, University of San Diego, San Diego, California 92110, USA.
Abstract:
A reply is made to Duncan's Comment [T. L. Duncan, Phys. Rev. E 61, 4661 (2000)] on my earlier paper [D. P. Sheehan, Phys. Rev. E 57, 6660 (1998)] in which he raises an apparent second-law paradox arising from dynamically maintained, steady-state pressure gradients. Resolutions to this paradox are considered in light of current theoretical and experimental understanding.
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