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Relations between nonlinear kernels of the collision integral

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Previously, to solve the Boltzmann equation by the moments method with expansion of the distribution function by spherical Hermit polynomials, a new computational method was suggested which allowed to construct nonlinear matrix elements of the collision integral with very large indices. This made it possible to substantially advance in construction of the distribution function. Limitations to convergence of the distribution function that appear in moment method are eliminated if we come to expansion by spherical harmonics from expansion by spherical Hermit polynomials. In this case, a complex five-fold collision integral is replaced by a set of comparatively simple integral operators, and kernels G l l1,l2 (c, c 1, c 2) of these operators become the analog of matrix elements. We found the relations between expansions of the distribution function in the reference frames with various velocities of motion along marked axis. Starting from the invariance condition of the collision integral with respect to selection of such reference frames, we derived recurrent relations between the kernels with various indices. These relations allow us to construct any nonlinear kernel G l l1, l2 (c, c 1, c 2), if the kernel G 00,0 (c, c 1, c 2) is known.

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Original Russian Text © Author, 2011, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 437, No. 4, pp. 000–000.

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Ender, A.Y., Ender, I.A. & Bakaleinikov, L.A. Relations between nonlinear kernels of the collision integral. Dokl. Phys. 56, 216–218 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028335811040070

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