On the relaxation of single hard-sphere gases

DOI10.1063/1.857762zbMath0699.76088OpenAlexW1526219323MaRDI QIDQ3478169

Georg Kügerl, Ferdinand Schürrer

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857762

zbMATH Keywords

equilibriumdistribution functioninitial conditionsnonlinear Boltzmann equationhigh-energy tailLaguerre moment methodMaxwellization of a spatially uniform hard- sphere gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (5)

Variational Estimates of the Spectral Gap and Eigenvalue Spectra of the Linearized and Linear Boltzmann Hard Sphere Collision Operators ⋮ Polynomial expansions for the isotropic Boltzmann equation and invariance of the collision integral with respect to the choice of basis functions ⋮ Scales and kinetics of granular flows ⋮ Exact solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the VHP model with removal interaction ⋮ Multigroup solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation

Cites Work

• Exact solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation
• Laguerre polynomial solution of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for the hard-sphere model
• Exact solutions of the Boltzmann equation
• Filling Rate of the Tail of the Velocity Distribution Function
• Sonine Polynomial Solution of the Boltzmann Equation for Relaxation of Initially Nonequilibrium Distribution

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