From billiards to thermodynamics. (English) Zbl 1364.80002
The authors propose, describe, and investigate numerically a simple stochastic version of billiard systems arising from Hamiltonian mechanical models. In these interacting particles systems, the mechanism of elastic collisions of a point mass with a random thermostat is modeled by a Markov chain process.
Reviewer: Dimitra Antonopoulou (Cheshire)
MSC:
| 80A05 | Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer |
| 60J20 | Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) |
| 60J22 | Computational methods in Markov chains |
Keywords:
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