2000/10/04 by C. Y. Chen, C.Y. Chen, Chen, C. Y.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0010015
18 pages, 11 figures
arxiv created 2000/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2000/10/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Collisional effects are included in the path-integral formulation that was proposed in one of our previous paper for the collisionless Boltzmann gas. In calculating the number of molecules entering a six-dimensional phase volume element due to collisions, both the colliding molecules and the scattered molecules are allowed to have distributions; thus the calculation is done smoothly and no singularities arise.