Equivalence of Boltzmann and moment equations

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Nov 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010a%26a...522a..30c&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 522, id.A30

Statistics

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Stars: Kinematics And Dynamics, Galaxy: Kinematics And Dynamics, Galaxies: Statistics, Methods: Analytical, Hydrodynamics

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The closure problem for the stellar hydrodynamic equations is studied by describing the family of phase space density functions, for which the collisionless Boltzmann equation is strictly equivalent to a finite subset of moment equations. It is proven that the redundancy of the higher-order moment equations and the recurrence of the velocity moments are of similar nature. The method is based on the use of maximum entropy distributions, which are afterwards generalised to phase space density functions depending on any isolating integral of motion in terms of a polynomial function of degree n in the velocities. The equivalence between the moment equations up to an order n+1 and the collisionless Boltzmann equation is proven. It is then possible to associate the complexity of a stellar system, i.e., the minimum set of velocity moments needed to describe its main kinematic features, with the number of moment equations required to model it.

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