Frame-indifferent kinetic theory

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002219zbMath0528.76081MaRDI QIDQ3309345

L. C. Woods

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

second order approximation; constitutive equation; frame indifference; Chapman-Enskog theory; corrected expressions for Burnett terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

82C70: Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics

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• On the concept of frame-indifference in continuum mechanics and in the kinetic theory of gases
• Material indifference: A principle or a convenience
• On the frame dependence of stress and heat flux