• Title of article

    Computation of entropy increase for Lorentz gas and hard disks

  • Author/Authors

    Courbage، نويسنده , , M. and Saberi Fathi، نويسنده , , S.M.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    444
  • To page
    455
  • 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.
  • Keywords
    Lyapounov exponents , H-theorem , Hard disks , entropy , Lorentz gas
  • Journal title
    Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Record number

    1532968