Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Thermodynamics
- 2 Statistical Mechanics
- 3 Hydrodynamics
- 4 Stochastic Processes
- 5 Fluctuation Relations for Energy and Particle Fluxes
- 6 Path Probabilities, Temporal Disorder, and Irreversibility
- 7 Driven Brownian Particles and Related Systems
- 8 Effusion Processes
- 9 Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
- 10 Fluctuating Chemohydrodynamics
- 11 Reactions
- 12 Active Processes
- 13 Transport in Hamiltonian Dynamical Models
- 14 Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 15 Transport in Open Quantum Systems
- Appendix A Complements on Thermodynamics
- Appendix B Complements on Dynamical Systems Theory
- Appendix C Complements on Statistical Mechanics
- Appendix D Complements on Hydrodynamics
- Appendix E Complements on Stochastic Processes
- Appendix F Complements on Fluctuation Relations
- References
- Index
9 - Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Thermodynamics
- 2 Statistical Mechanics
- 3 Hydrodynamics
- 4 Stochastic Processes
- 5 Fluctuation Relations for Energy and Particle Fluxes
- 6 Path Probabilities, Temporal Disorder, and Irreversibility
- 7 Driven Brownian Particles and Related Systems
- 8 Effusion Processes
- 9 Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
- 10 Fluctuating Chemohydrodynamics
- 11 Reactions
- 12 Active Processes
- 13 Transport in Hamiltonian Dynamical Models
- 14 Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 15 Transport in Open Quantum Systems
- Appendix A Complements on Thermodynamics
- Appendix B Complements on Dynamical Systems Theory
- Appendix C Complements on Statistical Mechanics
- Appendix D Complements on Hydrodynamics
- Appendix E Complements on Stochastic Processes
- Appendix F Complements on Fluctuation Relations
- References
- Index
Summary
Boltzmann’s equation ruling the time evolution of the one-particle distribution function is obtained by partitioning the phase space into the free-flight and collision domains in low-density gases. The expressions for the entropy production and the entropy exchange are related to the H-theorem. The transport properties and gas-surface interactions are discussed. Furthermore, the multivariate fluctuation relation for the energy and particle fluxes is deduced from the fluctuating Boltzmann equation. In addition, an integral fluctuation relation is established for the Boltzmann factorization of the multiparticle probability density into one-particle distribution functions.
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- The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena , pp. 333 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022