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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 177, Issue 5, Pages 825-888Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-019-02393-2
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Thermodynamics; Heat conduction; Liquid-gas transition; Super-cooled gas
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We propose the concept of global temperature for spatially non-uniform heat conduction systems. With this novel quantity, we present an extended framework of thermodynamics for the whole system such that the fundamental relation of thermodynamics holds, which we call global thermodynamics for heat conduction systems. Associated with this global thermodynamics, we formulate a variational principle for determining thermodynamic properties of the liquid-gas phase coexistence in heat conduction, which corresponds to the natural extension of the Maxwell construction for equilibrium systems. We quantitatively predict that the temperature of the liquid-gas interface deviates from the equilibrium transition temperature. This result indicates that a super-cooled gas stably appears near the interface.
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