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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Boltzmann entropy for dense fluids not in local equilibrium
P L Garrido1, S Goldstein, J L Lebowitz
1Departamento de E.M. y Física de la Materia, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
Abstract:
Using computer simulations, we investigate the time evolution of the (Boltzmann) entropy of a dense fluid not in local equilibrium. The macrovariables M describing the system are the (empirical) particle density f=[f(x,v)] and the total energy E. We find that S(f(t),E) is a monotone increasing in time even when its kinetic part is decreasing. We argue that for isolated Hamiltonian systems monotonicity of S(M(t))=S(M(X(t))) should hold generally for "typical" (the overwhelming majority of) initial microstates (phase points) X0 belonging to the initial macrostate M0, satisfying M(X0)=M(0). This is a consequence of Liouville's theorem when M(t) evolves according to an autonomous deterministic law.
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