Failure of the Fokker–Planck approximation to the Boltzmann integral for (1/r) potentials

DOI10.1063/1.866508zbMath0644.76092OpenAlexW2015016215MaRDI QIDQ3787704

Edward C. Shoub

Publication date: 1987

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866508

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational interactionsBoltzmann integralcollisional relaxationLandau-RMJ collisionlarge angle scatteringlight-heavy particle collision

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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Cites Work

• Secular and Nonsecular Behavior for the Cold Plasma Equations

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