Some classes of exact solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 19 (4) , 774-779
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.523734
Abstract
We derive and discuss some exact solutions of the full (nonlinear) Boltzmann equation. One of these is the similarity solution recently found by Krook and Wu for the velocity relaxation problem. Other similarity solutions do exist, and we point out their usefulness in the search for exact solutions of the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation.Keywords
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