Shivanian, Elyas; López-Ruiz, Ricardo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 8, pp. 2600-2607
In this work, a new model in kinetic gas theory for deriving the Maxwellian velocity distribution (MVD) is proposed. We construct an operator that governs the discrete time evolution of the velocity distribution. This operator, which conserves the momentum and the energy of the ideal gas, has...