Mean-Field Model Beyond Boltzmann-Enskog Picture for Dense Gases

Communications in Computational Physics
Vol. 9 No. 5 (2011), pp. 1106-1116
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Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Received
October 30, 2009
Abstract

This work proposes an extension to Boltzmann BGK equation for dense gases. The present model has an H-theorem and it allows choice of the Prandtl number as an independent parameter. I show that similar to Enskog equation this equation can reproduce dynamics of dense gases.

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