- Series
- Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Reading Group
- Time
- Monday, October 3, 2016 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Zaher Hani – GeorgiaTech – hani@math.gatech.edu – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~zhani6/
- Organizer
- Zaher Hani
We continue our discussion, started last week, on what we called the "Boltzmann approach" to non-equilibrium statistical physics. We shall start with some remarks concerning the derivation and regimes of validity of the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gases (the Boltzmann-Grad limit). Then we will consider Boltzmann kinetic equation, and prove its
H-principle. This corresponds mainly to Chapters 1 and 2 of Dorfman "An
introduction to Chaos in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics".