Notes on diffusion in collisionless medium (Q1876445)
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Notes on diffusion in collisionless medium (English)
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7 September 2004
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A collisionless continuous medium in Euclidean space is discussed, i.e. a continuum of free particles moving inertially, without interacting with each other. It is shown that the distribution density of such medium is weakly converging to zero as time increases indefinitely. In the case of Maxwell's velocity distribution of particles, this density satisfies the well-known diffusion equation, the diffusion coefficient increasing linearly with time.
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collisionless continuous medium
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Gibbs ensemble
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heat equation
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nonstandard diffusion equation
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