A STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION OF THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES IN DILUTE GASES,
Abstract
A simplified theory is proposed which fulfills the following requirement: the Boltzmann equation is not solved, even approximately, but used only to supply the minimum information required to compute the transport coefficients. This work is a systematic development originally planned as a thorough investigation of mixtures of polyatomic gases under the so-called dilute gas approximation, with inclusion of chemical kinetics, as well as an investigation of a variety of macroscopic descriptions for mixtures, of which, however, only the two extremes are studied. The report is entirely self-consistent and is intended to be accessible to beginners, prerequisite being only a knowledge of the derivation from first principles of the Boltzmann equation, and elementary properties of the socalled collision operator. All the details are worked out, even the reduction of the so-called curly brackets to ordinary collision integrals, an analysis that is thoroughly carried out by Chapman and Cowling, but which may be much simplified under the present conditions. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0426078
Entities
People
- Jean-pierre Guiraud
Organizations
- Stanford University