Approach to Equilibrium of a Boltzmann-Equation Solution
- 23 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (21) , 1493-1496
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1493
Abstract
The generalized theorem, , is verified for for the Bobylev-Krook-Wu solution of the Boltzmann equation, and for -dimensional generalizations of that solution, .
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