Variational Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation
- 1 August 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 41 (3), 591-595
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1725930
Abstract
Known variational methods are reviewed and their applicability to the Boltzmann equation when detailed balance does not hold is discussed. The relation between these variational methods and time‐reversal and space‐inversion symmetry is indicated.Keywords
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