Propagation phenomena in classical and relativistic rarefied gases

DOI10.1080/00411450008205896zbMath1017.82043OpenAlexW2088149997MaRDI QIDQ2720988

Carlo Cercignani

Publication date: 28 June 2001

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00411450008205896

zbMATH Keywords

travelling wavesBoltzmann equationshock wavesshear wavesdistribution functionsound wavespropagation of discontinuities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Related Items

Rarefied gas flow around a sharp edge induced by a temperature field, A NOTE ON THE PROPAGATION OF BOUNDARY INDUCED DISCONTINUITIES IN KINETIC THEORY, Formation and propagation of discontinuity for Boltzmann equation in non-convex domains, A rarefied gas flow caused by a discontinuous wall temperature

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• The mathematical theory of dilute gases
• Inappropriateness of the heat-conduction equation for description of a temperature field of a stationary gas in the continuum limit: Examination by asymptotic analysis and numerical computation of the Boltzmann equation