A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challenge the general belief that isolated systems necessarily reach a static equilibrium state. In particular, the fact that the piston behaves like a perpetuum mobile, i.e., it never stops but keeps wandering, undergoing sizable oscillations, around the position corresponding to maximum entropy, has remarkable implications on the entropy variations of the system and on the validity of the second law when dealing with systems of mesoscopic dimensions
The steady states of two vibrated granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston are investigated. ...
A comparison between the standard adiabatic piston dynamics and that of a perfectly conducting (diat...
We perform molecular dynamic simulations of a system consisting of an insulating piston, which separ...
A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challen...
A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals, for a finely-tuned choice of the spatia...
A closed macroscopic equation for the motion of the two-dimensional adiabatic piston is derived from...
We consider the evolution of a system composed of N non-interacting point particles of mass m in a c...
We consider an isolated gaseous system, divided in two parts by an adiabatic movable frictionless in...
We describe the entropy evolution of an isolated thermodynamical system, consisting of an ideal gas...
Aip Conference Proceedings 643 (1), 267-272 (American Institute of Physics, November 2002
A closed macroscopic equation for the motion of the two-dimensional adiabatic piston is derived from...
We consider the adiabatic and quasi-static compression of adilute classical gas, confined in a pisto...
Engines are open systems that can generate work cyclically at the expense of an external disequilibr...
We revisit the paradigm of an ideal gas under isothermal conditions. A moving piston performs work o...
We revisit the paradigm of an ideal gas under isothermal conditions. A moving piston performs work o...
The steady states of two vibrated granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston are investigated. ...
A comparison between the standard adiabatic piston dynamics and that of a perfectly conducting (diat...
We perform molecular dynamic simulations of a system consisting of an insulating piston, which separ...
A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challen...
A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals, for a finely-tuned choice of the spatia...
A closed macroscopic equation for the motion of the two-dimensional adiabatic piston is derived from...
We consider the evolution of a system composed of N non-interacting point particles of mass m in a c...
We consider an isolated gaseous system, divided in two parts by an adiabatic movable frictionless in...
We describe the entropy evolution of an isolated thermodynamical system, consisting of an ideal gas...
Aip Conference Proceedings 643 (1), 267-272 (American Institute of Physics, November 2002
A closed macroscopic equation for the motion of the two-dimensional adiabatic piston is derived from...
We consider the adiabatic and quasi-static compression of adilute classical gas, confined in a pisto...
Engines are open systems that can generate work cyclically at the expense of an external disequilibr...
We revisit the paradigm of an ideal gas under isothermal conditions. A moving piston performs work o...
We revisit the paradigm of an ideal gas under isothermal conditions. A moving piston performs work o...
The steady states of two vibrated granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston are investigated. ...
A comparison between the standard adiabatic piston dynamics and that of a perfectly conducting (diat...
We perform molecular dynamic simulations of a system consisting of an insulating piston, which separ...