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Inelastic collision integral approximation of the Boltzmann equation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
A study is made of the inelastic collision integral of the Boltzmann equation using scattering probability formalism. The collision operators are expanded in a power series in the square root of the ratio of masses.
Furthermore, a spherical harmonic expansion is made of all the operators so obtained. These developments are valid whatever the shape of the distribution function of the particles.
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