Higher-order continuum approximation for rarefied gases

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DOI10.1063/1.1613280zbMATH Open1186.76496arXivphysics/0301021OpenAlexW1973048037WikidataQ59426004 ScholiaQ59426004MaRDI QIDQ3554144FDOQ3554144


Authors: Edward A. Spiegel, Jean-Luc Thiffeault Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hilbert-Chapman-Enskog expansion of the kinetic equations in mean flight times is believed to be asymptotic rather than convergent. It is therefore inadvisable to use lower order results to simplify the current approximation as is done in the traditional Chapman-Enskog procedure, since that is an iterative method. By avoiding such recycling of lower order results, one obtains macroscopic equations that are asymptotically equivalent to the ones found in the Chapman-Enskog approach. The new equations contain higher order terms that are discarded in the Chapman-Enskog method. These make a significant impact on the results for such problems as ultrasound propagation. In this paper, it is shown that these results turn out well with relatively little complication when the expansions are carried to second order in the mean free time, for the example of the relaxation or BGK model of kinetic theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0301021




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