Velocity distribution function of a streaming gas via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
- 8 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (23), 2443-2445
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2443
Abstract
The shear-flow–induced distortion of the velocity distribution function of a Lennard-Jones gas is computed in a nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulation and compared with the kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation.Keywords
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