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Coffision integral between particles of disparate mass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

C. Lo Surdo
Affiliation:
CNEN, Laboratorio Conversione Diretta, Frascati, Roma

Extract

Two alternative approaches to expanding the binary collision integral for particles of very different mass in powers of their small mass ratio m/M are examined in detail. One of them in particular is found to be suitable for a subsequent expansion of the above quantity in series of spherical harmonics. This reduces to a simple algebra the labour of determining the angular-moment form of the Boltzmann equation for Lorentzian mixtures.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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