(Ir)reversibility and Entropy

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-25361-4_16zbMath1259.82089OpenAlexW4211041442MaRDI QIDQ2912109

Cédric Villani

Publication date: 14 September 2012

Published in: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25361-4_16

zbMATH Keywords

paradoxesmicroscopic chaosBoltzmann equationentropy productionkinetic equationsLandau equationVlasov equationBoltzmann collision operatornonlinear Landau dampingtime arrowlinearized analysisBoltzmann \(H\) theoremstatistical entropiesevolution of entropyBalescu-Lenard equationCercingnani's conjecturegliding regularitygrazing collision asymptoticsisentropic relaxationprecollisional chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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