Description
• Macroscopic state variables.
• Mechanics of continuous media and its restriction.
• Concept of dilute gas and conditions of its applicability.
• Mean free path and equivalent free path.
• Rarefaction parameter and Knudsen number.
• Velocity distribution function.
• Boltzmann equation.
• Main properties of the Boltzmann equation: collision invariants, H-theorem.
• Maxwellian distribution function, most probable speed, and thermal speed.
• Linearized Boltzmann equation.
• Transport coefficients: viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion, and thermal diffusion.
• Model equations.
• Velocity slip and temperature jump coefficients.
