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- On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?
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It is often argued that the indispensability of continuum models comes from their empirical adequacy despite their decoupling from the microscopic details of the modelled physical system. There is thus a commonly held misconception that temperature varying across a region of space or time can always be accurately represented as a continuous function. We discuss three inter-related cases of temperature modelling — in phase transitions, thermal boundary resistance and slip flows — and show that...
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- Date created
- 2023
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- Montelle, Clemency / Jha, Aditya / Campbell, Douglas / Wilson, Phillip
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- https://hdl.handle.net/10092/106199
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- Mathematical sciences / Mathematical physics / Algebraic structures in mathematical physics
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