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Time dependent friction in a free gas

Cristiano Fanelli·Francesco Sisti·Gabriele V. Stagno
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We consider a body immersed in a perfect gas, moving under the action of a constant force E along the x axis . We assume the gas to be described by the mean-field approximation and interacting elastically with the body, we study the friction exerted by the gas on the body fixed at constant velocities. The dynamic in this setting was studied in previous papers for object with simple shape, showing new features in the dynamic but not in the friction term. The case of more general shape of the body was left out for further difficulties, we believe indeed that there are actually non trivial issues to be faced for these more general cases. To show this and in the in the spirit of getting a more realistic perspective in the study of friction problems, in this paper we focused our attention on the friction term itself, studying its behavior on a body with a more general kind of concavity and fixed at constant velocities. We derive the expression of the friction term for constant velocities, we show how it is time dependent and we give its exact estimate in time. Finally we use this result to show the absence of a stationary velocity in the actual dynamic of such a body.

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Cristiano Fanelli, Francesco Sisti, Gabriele V. Stagno. 2015-09-08. Time dependent friction in a free gas. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943013

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