A toy-model study of the grazing collisions in the kinetic theory

DOI10.1007/s10955-015-1259-0zbMath1360.82033OpenAlexW2060040563MaRDI QIDQ513156

Shigeru Takata

Publication date: 3 March 2017

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/261187

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz gasBoltzmann equationgrazing collisionskinetic theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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