title: Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston.
abstract: Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston are investigated, based on the mass ratio expansion of the master equation for the piston velocity distribution function. Simple theory for piston motion and relaxation of an ideal gas in a cylinder turns out to reproduce our numerical experiments quantitatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Munakata
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogawa