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Microscopic solutions of the Boltzmann-Enskog equation in the series representation

Mathematical Physics 2018-02-19 v1 Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

The Boltzmann-Enskog equation for a hard sphere gas is known to have so called microscopic solutions, i.e., solutions of the form of time-evolving empirical measures of a finite number of hard spheres. However, the precise mathematical meaning of these solutions should be discussed, since the formal substitution of empirical measures into the equation is not well-defined. Here we give a rigorous mathematical meaning to the microscopic solutions to the Boltzmann-Enskog equation by means of a suitable series representation.

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@article{arxiv.1802.05926,
  title  = {Microscopic solutions of the Boltzmann-Enskog equation in the series representation},
  author = {Mario Pulvirenti and Sergio Simonella and Anton Trushechkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05926},
  year   = {2018}
}