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Title

Analytical formulas for shear and bulk viscosities in relativistic gaseous mixtures with constant cross sections
Author

Oleg Moroz
Organization: Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics
Journal / Anthology

Computers & Fluids
Year: 2014
Volume: 90
Page range: 9-20
Description

Using Mathematica package, we derive analytical closed-form expressions for the shear and the bulk viscosity coefficients in multicomponent relativistic gases with constant cross sections, being the relativistic generalization for the hard spheres model. Some of them are cumbersome and require symbolic manipulations in an algebraic package. The constant cross sections are of the elastic processes, while the inelastic (or number-changing) processes (collisions or decays) are considered only partly. As examples, we find explicit expressions of the correct single-component first-order shear viscosity coefficient and some explicit analytical results for the binary mixture. These formulas have numerous applications in approximate nonequilibrium descriptions of gases of particles or quasiparticles with averaged (temperature dependent) cross sections. In addition to this, we present formulas for collision rates and some other related formulas.
Subject

*Science > Physics > Fluid Mechanics