A New Relativistic Model for Polyatomic Gases Interacting with an Electromagnetic Field

Sebastiano Pennisi, Rita Enoh Tchame and Marcel Obounou
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Sebastiano Pennisi: Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Universitá di Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Rita Enoh Tchame: Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé P.O. Box 812, Cameroon
Marcel Obounou: Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé P.O. Box 812, Cameroon

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Maxwell’s equations in materials are studied jointly with Euler equations using new knowledge recently appeared in the literature for polyatomic gases. For this purpose, a supplementary conservation law is imposed; one of the results is a restriction on the law linking the magnetic field in empty space and the electric field in materials to the densities of the 4-Lorentz force ν α and its dual μ α : These are the derivatives of a scalar function with respect to ν α and μ α , respectively. Obviously, two of Maxwell’s equations are not evolutive (Gauss’s magnetic and electric laws); to simplify this mathematical problem, a new symmetric hyperbolic set of equations is here presented which uses unconstrained variables and the solutions of the new set of equations, with initial conditions satisfying the constraints, restore the previous constrained set. This is also useful because it allows to maintain an overt covariance that would be lost if the constraints were considered from the beginning. This is also useful because in this way the whole set of equations becomes a symmetric hyperbolic system as usually in Extended Thermodynamics.

Keywords: Maxwell’s equations; Extended Thermodynamics; polyatomic gases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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