Incompressible navier-stokes and euler limits of the boltzmann equation

We consider solutions of the Boltzmann equation, in a d-dimensional torus, d = 2, 3, For macroscopic times τ = t/?^N, ? « 1, t ≧ 0, when the space variations are on a macroscopic scale x = ?^N?1r, N ≧ 2, x in the unit torus. Let u(x, t) be, for t ≦ t₀, a smooth solution of the incompressible Navier Stokes equations (INS) for N = 2 and of the Incompressible Euler equation (IE) for N > 2. We prove that (*) has solutions for t ≦ t₀ which are close, to O(?²) in a suitable norm, to the local Maxwellian p/(2πT)^d/2]exp{?v ? ?u(x,t)]²/2T } with constant density p and temperature T . This is a particular case, defined by the choice of initial values of the macroscopic variables, of a class of such solutions in which the macroscopic variables satisfy more general hydrodynamical equations. For N ≧ 3 these equations correspond to variable density IE while for N = 2 they involve higher-order derivatives of the density.