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Reversibility, Irreversibility, Friction and nonequilibrium ensembles in N-S equations

arXiv:2210.05483

Abstract

Viscosity, as a physical property of fluids, reflects an average effect over a chaotic microscopic motion described by Hamiltonian equations. It is proposed, as an example, that stationary states of an incompressible fluid subject to a constant force, can be described via several ensembles, in strict analogy with equilibrium Statistcal Mechanics.

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