| Abstract: | The results of an analytic and numerical investigation of the properties of the high-velocity “tails” of the distribution
function are given for the solution of the BGK model of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for plane Couette flow of a compressible
gas.
Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 183–190, July–August, 1998.
The work was carried out with financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 96-01-00573; grant
in support of leading science schools No. 96-15-9603). |
