Brownian ratchet ratchet will not rotate continuously in one direction but will move randomly back and forth, and therefore will not produce any useful work. The reason is that since the pawl is at the same temperature as the paddle, it will also undergo Brownian motion, "bouncing" up and down. It therefore will intermittently fail by allowing a ratchet tooth to slip backward under the pawl while it is up. Another issue is that when the pawl rests on the sloping face of the tooth, the spring which returns the pawl exerts a sideways force on the tooth which tends to rotate
Reflected Brownian motion steady state RBMs. Feller described possible boundary condition for the process Reflected Brownian motion In probability theory, reflected Brownian motion (or regulated Brownian motion, both with the acronym RBM) is a Wiener process in a space with reflecting boundaries. RBMs have been shown to describe queueing models experiencing heavy traffic as first proposed by Kingman and proven by Iglehart and Whitt. A "d"–dimensional reflected Brownian motion "Z" is a stochastic process on formula_1 uniquely defined by where "X"("t") is an unconstrained Brownian motion and with "Y"("t") a "d"–dimensional vector where The reflection matrix describes boundary behaviour. In the interior of