Thermodynamics of slow solutions to the Gas-Piston equations
arXiv:1603.05817 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042106
Abstract
Despite its historical importance, a perfect gas enclosed by a pistons and in contact with a thermal reservoirs is a system still largely under study. Its thermodynamic properties are not yet well understood when driven under non-equilibrium conditions. In particular, analytic formulas that describe the heat exchanged with the reservoir are rare. In this paper we prove a power series expansions for the heat when both the external force and the reservoir temperature are slowly varying over time but the overall process is not quasi-static. To do so, we use the dynamical equations from [Cerino \emph{et al.}, \textit{Phys. Rev. E}, \textbf{91} 032128] and an uncommon application of the regular perturbation technique.
8 pages, 3 figures
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