Jaynesian statistical inference is used to predict that steady, non-uniform Couette flow in a simple liquid will generate a heat flux proportional to the gradient of the square of the strain-rate when the temperature gradient is negligible. The heat flux is divided into phonon and self-diffusion...

We study the motion of a classical particle in an infinite, one-dimensional, sequence of equidistant potential barriers, whose position and height oscillate periodically. If these oscillations are properly synchronized, the right–left symmetry is broken and the particle drifts. Features of the...

We investigate the influence of a weak uniform bias on chaotic diffusion generated by iterated one-dimensional maps which, in the absence of the bias, lead to subdiffusion.

We calculate the distribution of the distance headways (i.e., the instantaneous gap between successive vehicles) as well as the distribution of instantaneous distance between successive jams in the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NS) model of vehicular traffic. When the maximum allowed speed, Vmax, of the...

The construction of kinetic models for a practical description of hard sphere dynamics in fluid, amorphous solid, and crystal phases is outlined. The models are constructed to apply for both elastic and dissipative collisions. As an illustration, the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics and transport...