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In recent years, there has been much interest in the nature of the fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems [ l] . Most of the work in this field has consisted of studying the composition fluctuations for a given system through the Master Equation, the Fokker-Planck Equation or a Stochastic Differential Equation. Recently, these methods have been applied to the study of thermal systems by Nicolis, Baras, and Malek Mansour [ 2] . In this paper, we review their analysis of the two reservoir model. We discuss a computer simulation which has been developed to study this system and present a confirmation of their thermal fluctuation predictions.
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Garcia, A.L., Turner, J.S. (1984). Studies of Thermal Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Systems by Monte Carlo Computer Simulations. In: Nicolis, G., Baras, F. (eds) Chemical Instabilities. NATO ASI Series, vol 120. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7254-4_13
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