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The Euler and Navier-Stokes fluid mechanics equations are derived using a modified statistical mechanical approach using theory taken from the Chapman-Enskog perturbation analysis used to support the lattice Boltzmann method. Additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-06 Charles Cook

A sequence of exact relations is found which connect one- and many-particle time-dependent distribution functions of low-density gas with their derivatives in respect to mean density. It is shown that, at least in the context of spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-20 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

This review is a kinetic theory study investigating the effects of inelasticity on the structure of the non-equilibrium states, in particular on the behavior of the velocity distribution in the high energy tails. Starting point is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Brito , M. H. Ernst

Some problems relevant to the relativistic generalization of Maxwell's velocity distribution are discussed.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Lattice Boltzmann models are briefly introduced together with references to methods used to predict their ability for simulations of systems described by partial differential equations that are first order in time and low order in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Pierre Lallemand , François Dubois , Li-shi Luo

We investigate the velocity relaxation of a viscous one-dimensional granular gas, that is, one in which neither energy nor momentum is conserved in a collision. Of interest is the distribution of velocities in the gas as it cools, and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandre Rosas , Daniel ben-Avraham , Katja Lindenberg

The velocity distribution function of the steady-state Boltzmann equation for hard-core molecules in the presence of a temperature gradient has been obtained explicitly to second order in density and the temperature gradient. Some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kim Hyeon-Deuk , Hisao Hayakawa

The nature of the velocity distribution of a driven granular gas, though well studied, is unknown as to whether it is universal or not, and if universal what it is. We determine the tails of the steady state velocity distribution of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 V. V. Prasad , Dibyendu Das , Sanjib Sabhapandit , R. Rajesh

We consider a class of nonlinear Boltzmann equations describing return to thermal equilibrium in a gas of colliding particles suspended in a thermal medium. We study solutions in the space $L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3}\times \mathbb{T}^3).$ Special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Juerg Froehlich , Zhou Gang

We consider the single-particle velocity distribution of a one-dimensional fluid of inelastic particles. Both the freely evolving (cooling) system and the non-equilibrium stationary state obtained in the presence of random forcing are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Barrat , T. Biben , Z. Racz , E. Trizac , F. van Wijland

For a gas at thermal equilibrium, it is usually assumed that the velocity distribution follows an isotropic 3-dimensional Maxwell-Boltzmann (M-B) law. This assumption classically implies the assumption of a "cos theta" law for the flux of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Petko Todorov , daniel Bloch

This paper investigates the combinatorics that gives rise to the Boltzmann probability distribution. Despite being one of the most important distributions in physics and other fields of science, the mathematics of the underlying model of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Bart Jacobs

We start with some global Maxwellian function $M$, which is a stationary solution (with the constant total density $\rho$) of the Boltzmann equation, and we denote the number of the corresponding space variables by $n$. The notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Lev Sakhnovich

Maxwell's first derivation of the equilibrium distribution function for a dilute gas is generalized in the spirit of the nonextensive q-statistics proposed by Tsallis. As an application, the q-Doppler broadening of spectral lines due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Silva , A. R. Plastino , J. A. S. Lima

High energy infers high velocity and high velocity is a concept of special relativity. The Maxwellian velocity distribution is corrected to be consistent with special relativity. The corrected distribution reduces to the Maxwellian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Advanced kinetic theory with the Boltzmann-Curtiss equation provides a promising tool for polyatomic gas flows, especially for fluid flows containing inner structures, such as turbulence, polyatomic gas flows and others. Although a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 James Chen

We study freely evolving and forced inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. We consider uniform collision rates and obtain analytical results valid for arbitrary spatial dimension d and arbitrary dissipation coefficient epsilon. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. L. Krapivsky , E. Ben-Naim

Within the framework of the post-Newtonian $2\frac12$ approximation theory, a kinetic theory for relativistic gases in the presence of gravitational fields is developed. The Boltzmann equation and the equilibrium Maxwell-J\"uttner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Gilberto M. Kremer

We analyze the deviations from Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics found in recent experiments studying velocity distributions in two-dimensional granular gases driven into a non-equilibrium stationary state by a strong vertical vibration. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Barrat , Emmanuel Trizac

A framework of finite-velocity model based Boltzmann equation has been developed for convection-diffusion equations. These velocities are kept flexible and adjusted to control numerical diffusion. A flux difference splitting based kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 S. V. Raghurama Rao , K. S. Shrinath , Ankit Ruhi , Veeredhi Vasudeva Rao