Temperature jump and velocity slip in the moment method (Q1976235)

The moment method in the kinetic theory of gases requires boundary conditions for moments. It is not possible to derive easily these conditions from boundary conditions for phase density. The conservations laws for mass, momentum and energy give only five relations among the moments and the properties of the wall. Additional boundary conditions can be determined from the minimax principle for entropy production recently proposed by the authors. Here these ideas are applied to the case of 13 and 14 moments, and to Maxwell boundary conditions for phase density which lead to temperature jumps and velocity slip at walls. In particular, the authors consider one-dimensional stationary heat transfer between the walls at rest. The wall temperature jumps are shown to depend on the values of all moments in front of the wall. The results obtained by the minimax principle are compared with results obtained for the same problem by the minimum principle for global entropy production, and by the so-called kinetic schemes.