Spacetime without reference frames: An application to the kinetic theory

DOI10.1007/BF02084958zbMath0878.70014MaRDI QIDQ675041

Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date: 11 January 1998

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stress tensor; heat flux; affine structure; Galilean spacetime; Chapman-Enskog iteration; material frame indifference; second approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

70H40: Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

82B40: Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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