Closed-vessel thermal transpiration

ID: closed-vessel-thermal-transpiration

Two equal sealed vessels of fixed volume, initially at , exchange an ideal gas through a thin effusive opening. Hold one at and the other at , with both interiors locally thermalized. Zero net particle transfer gives . Writing , conservation of total particle number gives and . Thus . The alternative , requires a cold reservoir whose pressure is externally held fixed; it is not the closed equal-volume problem.

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