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Volume 106, Number 3, May 2014
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Article Number | 34004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/106/34004 | |
Published online | 14 May 2014 |
Normal heat conductivity in chains capable of dissociation
1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa 32000, Israel
2 N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow 119991, Russia
Received: 26 December 2013
Accepted: 22 April 2014
The paper considers the highly debated problem of convergence of heat conductivity in one-dimensional chains with asymmetric nearest-neighbor potential. We conjecture that the convergence may be promoted not by the mere asymmetry of the potential, but due to the possibility that the chain dissociates. In other terms, the attractive part of the potential function should approach a finite value as the distance between the neighbors grows. To clarify this point, we study the simplest model of this sort —a chain of linearly elastic rods with finite size. If the distance between the rod centers exceeds their size, the rods cease to interact. Formation of gaps between the rods is the only possible mechanism for scattering of the elastic waves. Heat conduction in this system turns out to be convergent. Moreover, an asymptotic behavior of the heat conduction coefficient for the case of large densities and relatively low temperatures obeys a simple Arrhenius-type law. In the limit of low densities, the heat conduction coefficient converges due to triple rod collisions. Numeric observations in both limits are grounded by analytic arguments. In a chain with Lennard-Jones nearest-neighbor potential the heat conductivity also saturates in a thermodynamic limit and the coefficient also scales according to the Arrhenius law for low temperatures. This finding points on a universal role played by the possibility of dissociation, as convergence of the heat conduction coefficient is considered.
PACS: 44.10.+i – Heat conduction / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / 05.60.-k – Transport processes
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