Contributions to Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. II. Fluctuation Theory for the Boltzmann Equation

Fox, Ronald Forrest, and George E. Uhlenbeck. “Contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. II. Fluctuation theory for the Boltzmann equation.” The Physics of Fluids 13, no. 12 (1970): 2881-2890.
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The theory of the nonequilibrium phenomena in a dilute gas as described by the Boltzmann equation is extended in order to also include the fluctuations of the distribution function of the molecules. It is shown that in a first approximation this extension leads to the Landau‐Lifshitz fluctuation terms in the hydrodynamical equations.

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