| Abstract: | A generalization of the existence conditions for homogeneous flows of a rarefied monatomic gas mixture 2, 3] to the case where external forces are present is presented in 1]. Below we obtain for this case the solution of the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation under  free molecular (collisionless) conditions, when the collision integrals may be neglected (Knudsen number K  1). On the basis of this solution we construct a general solution for the equations of the kinetic moments of a Maxwellian monatomic gas mixture in the form of a series in inverse powers of K. Some additional remarks are made concerning the properties of the solutions of the second-order kinetic moment equations, and on the applicability of the Grad 13-moment equations and the Chapman-Enskog method in particular, for the calculation of slow (Stokesian) motions of a gas mixture].The authors wish to thank M. N. Kogan and A. A. Nikol'skii for their comments. |
