On generating exact solutions of the Maxwell-Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/BF00276383zbMath0424.76061OpenAlexW2038313150MaRDI QIDQ1135177

Robert G. Muncaster

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00276383

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsmoment equationsMaxwell-Boltzmann equationproducts of local Maxwellians and polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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