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Hydrodynamics of probabilistic ballistic annihilation

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We consider a dilute gas of hard spheres in dimension d2d \geq 2 that upon collision either annihilate with probability pp or undergo an elastic scattering with probability 1p1-p. For such a system neither mass, momentum, nor kinetic energy are conserved quantities. We establish the hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation description. Within the Chapman-Enskog scheme, we determine the transport coefficients up to Navier-Stokes order, and give the closed set of equations for the hydrodynamic fields chosen for the above coarse grained description (density, momentum and kinetic temperature). Linear stability analysis is performed, and the conditions of stability for the local fields are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407795,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics of probabilistic ballistic annihilation},
  author = {Francois Coppex and Michel Droz and Emmanuel Trizac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407795},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, 3 eps figures included

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