Thermal creep flow for the Boltzmann equation

Abstract

It is known that the Boltzmann equation has close relation to the classical systems in fluid dynamics. However, it provides more information on the microscopic level so that some phenomena, like the thermal creep flow, can not be modeled by the classical systems of fluid dynamics, such as the Euler equations. The author gives an example to show this phenomenon rigorously in a special setting. This paper is completely based on the author’s recent work, jointly with Wang and Yang.

Keywords

Thermal creep flow / Non-classical fluid system / Boltzmann equation

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