Analysis of thermal, sound, and shear waves according to a relativistic kinetic model

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Abstract
In this paper a kinetic model describing a relativistic gas is considered. The collision frequency is assumed to depend upon the particle speed in a way suggested in a previous paper by the authors. The new model has more satisfactory properties than one previously studied. Several results of both analytic and numerical character concerning the sound and heat waves with frequencies comparable to the intermolecular collision frequency are given.