The heat transfer and entropy generation in the parallel plate flow of a power-law fluid are analyzed. Asymmetric convective cooling is included in the analysis by considering thermal boundary conditions of the third kind. Using the known velocity profile, the temperature field is analytically...

It is shown that in a constant external potential the kinetic variational theory II (KVT II) yields the correct single-particle equilibrium distribution function for a system interacting through a hard core plus a sufficiently short-ranged attractive tail.

A study is performed on the time correlation function for the equilibrium fluctuations of the longitudinal velocity in a compressible, heat insulating fluid, within the context of extended irreversible thermodynamics. The memory function is explicitly computed and shown to obey a double...

A variational method is used to get the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional Smoluchowski equation for two types of symmetric bistable potential fields. The effects of barrier height and width on the rate of escape of particles over the barrier (first non-zero eigenvalue) are...