Irreversibility in an ideal fluid
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| Формат: | artículo original |
| Дата публикации: | 2014 |
| Описание: | When a real fluid is expelled quickly from a tube, it forms a jet separated from the surrounding fluid by a thin, turbulent layer. On the other hand, when the same fluid is sucked into the tube, it comes in from all directions, forming a sink-like flow. We show that, even for the ideal flow described by the time-reversible Euler equation, an experimenter who only controls the pressure in a pump attached to the tube would see jets form in one direction exclusively. The asymmetry between outflow and inflow therefore does not depend on viscous dissipation, but rather on the experimenter's limited control of initial and boundary conditions. This illustrates, in a rather different context from the usual one of thermal physics, how irreversibility may arise in systems whose microscopic dynamics are fully reversible. |
| Страна: | Kérwá |
| Институт: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/29495 |
| Online-ссылка: | http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4890941 https://hdl.handle.net/10669/29495 |
| Ключевое слово: | jets irreversibility Euler equation Machian propulsion |