The concept of irreversibility in the kinetic theory of gases

DOI10.1080/00411458708204298zbMath0627.76090OpenAlexW1970067943MaRDI QIDQ3763801

Helmut Neunzert, Reinhard Illner

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00411458708204298

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationreversibilityirreversibilityH-functionalweak lower semi-continuity of Boltzmann's H-functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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