Maximum entropy principle revisited

DOI10.1007/S001610050097MaRDI QIDQ1291845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Dreyer, Matthias Kunik

Publication date 10 June 1999

Published in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s001610050097

zbMATH Keywords

dominant particle interactionEuler equationsfree flightmaximum entropy principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

Review text

The authors study the effect of the maximum entropy principle (MEP) on the thermodynamic behaviour of gases. The MEP relies on the kinetic theory of gases, and yields local constitutive equations of extended thermodynamics. There are two extreme cases in the kinetic theory: dominance of particle interactions, and free flight. In its current form the MEP gives the phase density that maximizes the entropy at each instant of time. This is appropriate in the case of dominant particle interaction, but it is not adequate for free flight. Here the authors introduce a modified MEP capable of linking both extreme cases. To illustrate how the modified MEP works, the authors consider an example which leads in the case of dominant particle interactions to Euler equations. In addition, the authors prove a representation theorem which relates global solutions of Euler equations with shock interactions for arbitrary large variations of initial data.

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