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Heat, flowing through material systems composed of condensed phases produces thermal radiation forces, giving thus rise to various effects, some of them probably relevant to biological membrane transport. We shall use a simple physical argument to prove that the heat flux Jq couples with momentum flux Jp, generating pressure in liquid and liquid-solid interfaces. A theorem due to Boltzmann, applied by Ehrenfest to the adiabatic case1, shall be our starting point.
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Gaeta, F.S., Mita, D.G., Ascolese, E., Pecorella, M.A., Russo, P. (1991). Heat-Flux Driven Biomembrane Transport of Matter and Charge. In: Peliti, L. (eds) Biologically Inspired Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 263. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9483-0_17
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