Molecular extended thermodynamics: comparison between rarefied polyatomic and monatomic gas closures
Molecular extended thermodynamics: comparison between rarefied polyatomic and monatomic gas closures
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分子扩展热力学:稀薄多原子和单原子气体闭合之间的比较
DOI:
10.1007/s11587-016-0279-7
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
M. Sugiyama and S. Taniguchi
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作者:
T. Arima;T. Ruggeri;M. Sugiyama and S. Taniguchi
Molecular extended thermodynamics is justified at the mesoscopic level by the moment equations associated with the Boltzmann equation. For polyatomic gases we have a binary hierarchy of moments in contrast with the usual single hierarchy for monatomic gases. In this paper, taking one-dimensional space variables for simplicity, we review the closure of the system of the moment equations for polyatomic gases with the use of the maximum entropy principle, which is equivalent to the entropy principle. Then we consider the singular limit where the degrees of freedom of a molecule approach 3, and we prove that, by imposing appropriate initial conditions, the solutions for polyatomic gases converge to the ones for monatomic gases. As examples of the singular limit, the asymptotic behaviors of linear waves and light scattering based on the linearized system of field equations are briefly presented.