Rectification of thermal fluctuations in ideal gases
Abstract
We calculate the systematic average speed of the adiabatic piston and a thermal Brownian motor, introduced in [Van den Broeck, Kawai and Meurs, Microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.], by an expansion of the Boltzmann equation and compare with the exact numerical solution.
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