Oscillating Maxwellians
Abstract
Explicit homogeneous and inhomogeneous solutions are obtained for the d-dimensional nonlinear Boltzmann equations. Maxwell particles and time dependent external forces proportional either to the velocity or to the space variables are assumed. Examples of distributions which relax towards oscillating Maxwellians and others which relax toward absolute Maxwellians are found.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/18/14/003
- Bibcode:
- 1985JPhA...18L.839C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Models;
- Maxwell Bodies;
- Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function;
- Oscillations;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Relaxation Method (Mathematics);
- Scattering Cross Sections;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics