Decay of a linear pendulum in a free-molecular gas and in a special Lorentz gas

DOI10.1007/s10955-011-0412-7zbMath1245.82066MaRDI QIDQ664472

Kazuo Aoki, Tetsuro Tsuji

Publication date: 2 March 2012

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/153297

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz gas; Boltzmann equation; kinetic theory of gases; free-molecular gas; decay to equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

82D05: Statistical mechanics of gases

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