GENERALIZED BOLTZMANN EQUATION AND SOME OF ITS APPLICATIONS.

Abstract

A review is given of some of the main implications of the kinetic equation which has been derived for moderately dense monatomic gases via evaluation of Kadanoff's and Baym's theory in T-matrix approximation and under the assumption of long-wavelength behaviour. The equation is used to identify the hydro-thermodynamical quantities (i. e. the densities of particle number, momentum and energy) together with the corresponding flux vectors as functionals of the one-particle distribution function f. A generalization of Boltzmann's H-theorem appropriate for the improved kinetic equation is discussed.