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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Heat conduction, and the lack thereof, in time-reversible dynamical systems: generalized Nosé-Hoover oscillators with
Julien Clinton Sprott1, William Graham Hoover2, Carol Griswold Hoover2
1Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Abstract:
We use nonequilibrium molecular dynamics to analyze and illustrate the qualitative differences between the one-thermostat and two-thermostat versions of equilibrium and nonequilibrium (heat-conducting) harmonic oscillators. Conservative nonconducting regions can coexist with dissipative heat conducting regions in phase space with exactly the same imposed temperature field.
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