2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech1999
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
J. M. Rubi, P. Mazur
The reformulation of nonequilibirum thermodynamics, to include the treatment of thermodynamic fluctuations, is applied to the hydrodynamic fluctuations of a simple fluid. It is sho…
cond-mat1995
Brownian motion in the presence of a temperature gradient
A. Perez-Madrid, J. M. Rubi, P. Mazur
By considering an ensemble of Brownian particles suspended in a heat bath as a thermodynamic system with an internal degree of freedom it is possible to obtain the Fokker-Planck eq…