Constructive scheme for variational principles: The Bateman procedure for kinetic equations

DOI10.1515/jnet.1996.21.1.59zbMath0844.76085MaRDI QIDQ1912233

Bernd Sievers

Publication date: 2 September 1996

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1996.21.1.59

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equations; Fokker-Planck equation; heat conduction equation; linearized Boltzmann equation; extended nonlinear Boltzmann equation; Fréchet's formalism; local Lagrange formalism; nonlocal Lagrange formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

80A05: Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer

82C03: Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics

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