Memory Effects in Irreversible Thermodynamics: Corrected Derivation of Transport Equations

Robert Zwanzig; K. S. J. Nordholm; W. C. Mitchell

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.5.2680

Memory Effects in Irreversible Thermodynamics: Corrected Derivation of Transport Equations

Robert Zwanzig, K. S. J. Nordholm, and W. C. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. A 5, 2680 – Published 1 June 1972

Abstract

An error in an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. 124, 983 (1961)] is corrected. This error occurred in the derivation of nonlinear transport equations from a generalized Fokker-Planck equation, and took the form of neglecting certain fluctuations. When these are accounted for, the resulting transport equations contain fluctuation-renormalized transport coefficients.

Received 14 February 1972

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.5.2680

Authors & Affiliations

Robert Zwanzig and K. S. J. Nordholm^*

Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742

W. C. Mitchell^†

Thermoelectric Systems Section, 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota

^*Research supported by NSF Grant No. NSF GP 29534.
^†Research performed in part as NAS-NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Bureau of Standards, Wash., D. C.

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Vol. 5, Iss. 6 — June 1972

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