On the domain of hyperbolicity of the cumulant equations

DOI10.1007/s10955-005-6969-2zbMath1107.82053MaRDI QIDQ811921

Steffen Seeger, Karl Heinz Hoffmann

Publication date: 23 January 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-005-6969-2

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equation; hyperbolic conservation laws; moment method; cumulant method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

Uses Software

• Mathematica

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