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Thermodynamic Laws Of Billiards-Like Microscopic Heat Conduction Models, Ling-Chen Bu
Thermodynamic Laws Of Billiards-Like Microscopic Heat Conduction Models, Ling-Chen Bu
Doctoral Dissertations
In this thesis, we study the mathematical model of one-dimensional microscopic heat conduction of gas particles, applying both both analytical and numerical approaches. The macroscopic law of heat conduction is the renowned Fourier’s law J = −k∇T, where J is the local heat flux density, T(x, t) is the temperature gradient, and k is the thermal conductivity coefficient that characterizes the material’s ability to conduct heat. Though Fouriers’s law has been discovered since 1822, the thorough understanding of its microscopic mechanisms remains challenging [3] (2000). We assume that the microscopic model of heat conduction is a hard ball system. The …
Fourth Order Dispersion In Nonlinear Media, Georgios Tsolias
Fourth Order Dispersion In Nonlinear Media, Georgios Tsolias
Doctoral Dissertations
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in media bearing quartic
dispersion. After the experimental realization of so-called pure-quartic solitons, a
significant number of studies followed both for bright and for dark solitonic struc-
tures exploring the properties of not only quartic, but also setic, octic, decic etc.
dispersion, but also examining the competition between, e.g., quadratic and quartic
dispersion among others.
In the first chapter of this Thesis, we consider the interaction of solitary waves in
a model involving the well-known φ4 Klein-Gordon theory, bearing both Laplacian and biharmonic terms with different prefactors. As a …