Mode coupling from linear and nonlinear kinetic equations

DOI10.1007/BF01009797MaRDI QIDQ1069388zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James W. Dufty, Rosalio F. Rodriguez

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01009797

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium time correlation functionshard spheresKlimontovich equationlinear ring approximationmicroscopic phase space densitymode coupling contributionsnonlinear Boltzmann equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

Review text

The calculation of mode coupling contributions to equilibrium time correlation functions from the nonlinear Boltzmann equation is reconsidered. It is suggested that the use of a nonlinear kinetic equation is not appropriate in this context, but instead such calculations should be reinterpreted in terms of the Klimontovich equation for the microscopic phase space density. For hard spheres the Klimontovich equation is formally similar to the nonlinear Boltzmann equation, and this similarity is exploited to explain the successful calculation of mode coupling effects from the latter. The relationship of the Klimontovich formulation to the linear ring approximation is also established.

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