Consider the Boltzmann equation,
where
and and are defined in the usual way: and Summing equation (5.23) over i gives
Multiplying by before summing gives
Defining, as before, the fluid momentum through we get the same equations as in section 5.1.4.
The equation equivalent to equation (4.60) has an additional term , however, when this is multiplied by and summed over i it sums to zero by equation (4.39). We therefore obtain the same expression for as we did in section 5.1.4. Thus we again obtain the continuity equation (4.62) in terms of the fluid velocity and the Navier-Stokes equation (5.21).