Alvarez, F.X.; Jou, D. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 12, pp. 2367-2372
In nonequilibrium systems in the ballistic transport regime, every point of the system contains particles arriving from different regions–each of them at different temperatures–and there are only few collisions, in such a way that equilibrium between the different populations will be reached...