Exact solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/BF01009454zbMath0595.76076MaRDI QIDQ1078025

M. H. Ernst

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Boltzmann equationvelocity distribution functiondependenceMaxwell moleculespolynomial expansionsBKW solutionequations of Boltzmann typeexactly soluble one-dimensional Boltzmann equation with spatialexactly soluble one-dimensional Boltzmann equation with spatial dependencegeneral initial conditionsKrook-Wu conjecturenon-Maxwell-type moleculesspatially uniform system of very hard particlessuper H-theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

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