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Knudsen's law and random billiards in irrational triangles

arXiv:1006.4831

Abstract

We prove Knudsen's law for a gas of particles bouncing freely in a two dimensional pipeline with serrated walls consisting of irrational triangles. Dynamics are randomly perturbed and the corresponding random map studied under a skew-type deterministic representation which is shown to be ergodic and exact.

21 pages, 5 figures

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