The stability of multi-component gravitational systems described by a Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/BF00648034zbMath0617.76089OpenAlexW1996119676MaRDI QIDQ1088846

Henry E. Kandrup

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00648034

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityBoltzmann equationmulti-component systemscollisionless equationsdistribution of massesfield energyisotropic distribution of momentaJeans lengthlocal entropy maximumpopulation of starsspherically- symmetric, spatially truncated configurationspherically-symmetric disturbancesstar clusterstatic, spherically-symmetric solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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