Heating and fluctuations in elastoplastic systems

Starting from the equations of motion of a simple system possessing the properties of elastic and plastic bodies, we construct its Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions and also the Rayleigh dissipation function. This allows us to find the rate of heating of the system and to analyze the fluctuations...

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Published in:Nuclear physics. A 1998-10, Vol.641 (1), p.64-94
Main Authors: Mikhailova, T.I., Mikhailov, I.N., Di Toro, M., Do Dang, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Elastoplasticity
Fusion
Heavy-ion reactions
Mesoscopic dynamics
Quasi-fission
Rate of heating
Shape fluctuation growth
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Summary:Starting from the equations of motion of a simple system possessing the properties of elastic and plastic bodies, we construct its Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions and also the Rayleigh dissipation function. This allows us to find the rate of heating of the system and to analyze the fluctuations of basic observables. Introducing into the Hamilton-Rayleigh equation of motion a random force producing on average the same effects as a dissipation function, we arrive first at the Langevin equations describing the fluctuations and then at a kinetic equation for the distribution function defined in the space of the collective variables. In this way a rather general scheme is established for solving dynamical problems in different and more complex elastoplastic systems, in nuclear physics and maybe even in physics of molecules and atomic clusters. In a preliminary study, the model is applied to estimate the probability of the quasi-fission process coming from the thermal fluctuations of the nuclear shape.
ISSN:0375-9474
DOI:10.1016/S0375-9474(98)00458-8