Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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759903 | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation | 2008 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Entropy functionals are computed for non-stationary distributions of particles of Lorentz gas and hard disks. The distributions consisting of beams of particles are found to have the largest amount of entropy and entropy increase. The computations show exponentially monotonic increase during initial time of rapid approach to equilibrium. The rate of entropy increase is bounded by sums of positive Lyapounov exponents.
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Authors
M. Courbage, S.M. Saberi Fathi,