Statistical approach to the kinetics of nonuniform fluids

Jesús Biel and Joaquín Marro

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1978, vol. 94, issue 2, 297-320

Abstract: We present a new formalism in Fourier space for the study of spatially nonuniform fluids in nonequilibrium states which generalizes previous work on uniform fluids. Starting from the Liouville equation we obtain a hierarchy of equations for the reduced distribution functions which gives their rate of change at any given order of the system mean density as a sum of a finite number of terms. Using a finite-ranged repulsive interaction potential we derive, as a first application of the formalism, the Boltzmann integrodifferential equation for an infinite system which is initially in a “weakly” inhomogeneous state. This is accomplished introducing an initial statistical assumption, namely initial molecular chaos; this condition is seen to hold during the time evolution described by the resulting kinetic equation.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(78)90101-2

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