An Approximation for the Twenty-One-Moment Maximum-Entropy Model of Rarefied Gas Dynamics

DOI10.1080/10618562.2022.2047666zbMath1485.82009MaRDI QIDQ5075249

James G. McDonald, Fabien Giroux

Publication date: 10 May 2022

Published in: International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2022.2047666

zbMATH Keywords

moment closure; Boltzmann equation; kinetic theory; maximum-entropy; rarefied gas-dynamic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

82C40: Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics

35L40: First-order hyperbolic systems

78M05: Method of moments applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory

35Q20: Boltzmann equations