Nonisotropic solutions of the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/BF01021085zbMath0629.76085OpenAlexW1990323142MaRDI QIDQ1094262

C. R. Garibotti, R. O. Barrachina

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01021085

zbMATH Keywords

relaxation to equilibriumnonlinear Boltzmann equationnumerical calculationsmoment equationsMaxwell moleculesnonisotropic initial conditionsresummation of the orthogonal expansionspatially uniform Maxwellian gasthermal energiestransient relaxation phenomenatruncated series of orthogonal functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (1)

Wild's solution of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation.

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