CONSERVATION LAWS AND EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION
CONSERVATION LAWS AND EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION
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玻尔兹曼方程的守恒定律和精确解
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1989
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Hua Chen
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作者:
D. Mattis;A. Szpilka;Hua Chen
The distribution function f which satisfies the time-dependent Boltzmann equation (BE) for a Lorentz model with perfectly elastic random scatterers is proved nonnegative, and is computed exactly when backscattering dominates. Joule heating and Ohm’s law are recovered, although f has no steady-state limit, contrary to the relaxation-time approximation. (The conventional approximation to the time-independent BE also yields Ohm’s law but not the Joule heating and, worse, it unphysically predicts f<0.) The exact solution is compared with various effective-temperature approximations, and is shown to remain very nearly unchanged over a wide range of times even in the presence of a small amount of inelastic scattering.