Solitonic solutions for the generalized two-velocity Boltzmann equation
Abstract
We obtain solitonic solutions for an inhomogeneous model Boltzmann equation which describes a two velocity one-dimensional gas diffusing in a background when remotion and regeneration processes are allowed. These solutions are obtained as a series expansion in the similarity variable, whose coefficients can be exactly found within a recursive scheme. The solitons describe a shape-preserving distribution function which approaches a stationary value as time elapses. The particular case in which remotion and regeneration events are neglected can be solved in a closed form.
- Publication:
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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Pub Date:
- December 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90245-2
- Bibcode:
- 1988PhyA..153..612Z