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Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2015 Volume 85, Issue 12, Pages 12–20 (Mi jtf7952)

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Protokernel of the inverse collision integral of the Boltzmann equation for an isotropic scattering cross section

A. I. Endera, I. A. Enderb, Ë. À. Bakaleynikova, E. Yu. Flegontovaa

a Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
b Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract: It is shown that any kernel of the collision integral of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation isotropic in velocities can be expressed in terms of a universal protokernel independent of the model of interaction between particles by single integration with the interaction cross section. This makes it possible to calculate any kernels of an anisotropic Boltzmann equation and use for their constructing the recurrent relations obtained earlier at the protokernel level. We consider three different expressions for the protokernel, including that for an arbitrary ratio of the masses of colliding particles.

Received: 11.03.2015


 English version:
Technical Physics, 2015, 60:12, 1744–1752


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