A note on the kinetic theory of chemically reacting gases

A Rossani and G Spiga

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 272, issue 3, 563-573

Abstract: A kinetic approach to a mixture of gases whose particles interact by elastic scattering and by a bimolecular chemical reaction is analyzed by means of the relevant Boltzmann-like equation. Conservation laws and moment equations are considered, and, improving previous results in the literature, equilibria under collision are studied in detail, by providing in particular a strict stability result, which shows relaxation starting from any physically meaningful initial condition.

Keywords: Kinetic and transport theory; Boltzmann equation; Chemical reactions; Stability of equilibria; Relaxation processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00336-2

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