Physical Review Letters · 1977 · 28 citations · 1 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsChemical KineticsThermodynamicsBoltzmann Transport EquationMolecular CollisionsReaction DynamicsBoltzmann EquationsBoltzmann Transport TheoryCollision Cross SectionsCollisional RelaxationElastic Scattering Cross SectionsTime-dependent Boltzmann Equation
Exact solutions of similarity type are obtained for Boltzmann equations describing the temporal relaxation to equilibrium of an N-component gas with elastic collision cross sections of special form.Received 24 November 1976DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.991©1977 American Physical Society
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Max Krook, Tai Tsun Wu · Physical Review Letters · 1976 · 225 citations