The statistical thermodynamics of steady
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Wm.G. Hoover
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The suggestion that steady-state phase-space distributions might be smooth, rather than fractal, is investigated from the standpoint of stochastically-thermostatted systems. Let a pervasive, cool, rapidly-thermostatted ideal gas serve as a heat reservoir for macroscopic degrees of freedom. Flows of