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Adding an Additional Term to the Boltzmann Equation

  Consider the Boltzmann equation,

equation4739

where

  equation4745

and tex2html_wrap_inline12875 and tex2html_wrap_inline13963 are defined in the usual way: tex2html_wrap_inline14161 and tex2html_wrap_inline15143 Summing equation (5.23) over i gives

  equation4769

Multiplying by tex2html_wrap_inline15153 before summing gives

  equation4778

Defining, as before, the fluid momentum through tex2html_wrap_inline15161 we get the same equations as in section 5.1.4.

The equation equivalent to equation (4.60) has an additional term tex2html_wrap_inline15163 , however, when this is multiplied by tex2html_wrap_inline15113 and summed over i it sums to zero by equation (4.39). We therefore obtain the same expression for tex2html_wrap_inline15169 as we did in section 5.1.4. Thus we again obtain the continuity equation (4.62) in terms of the fluid velocity tex2html_wrap_inline15103 and the Navier-Stokes equation (5.21).



James Buick
Tue Mar 17 17:29:36 GMT 1998