Mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the behavior of gases.

I am writing with regard to two letters (C&EN, Oct. 23, pages 4 and 6). One, by Oswald Bergmann, asks if global warming should be self-limiting according to Stefan-Boltzmann law. The simple answer is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A general theoretical treatment is given of the linearized Boltzmann equation for flow in a bounded medium under conditions when the collision ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We apply the Chapman—Enskog procedure to derive hydrodynamic equations on an arbitrary surface from the Boltzmann equation on the surface.

Kinetic theory provides a vital framework for bridging the microscopic motion of individual particles and the macroscopic properties observed in gases and fluids. Central to this field is the ...

It has taken 140 years, but only now do we have mathematical proof that a seminal equation describing the behaviour of gases is correct. Robert Strain and Philip Gressman at the University of ...

Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

ERWIN SCHRÖDINGEB, born at Vienna in 1887, comes from that distinguished Austrian school of physics of Which Stefan, Loschmidt, Mach and Boltzmann of which Stefan, Loschmidt, Mach and Boltzmann were ...