Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston

Toyonori Munakata, Hideki Ogawa
2001 Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics  
Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston are investigated, based on the mass ratio expansion of the master equation for the piston velocity distribution function. Simple theory for piston motion and relaxation of an ideal gas in a cylinder turns out to reproduce our numerical experiments quantitatively.
doi:10.1103/physreve.64.036119 pmid:11580406 fatcat:2pcibuxvr5dynbnuf7kkq52zyu