On the derivation of a high-velocity tail from the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck equation for shear flow

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2001-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109490v2

J. Stat. Phys. 109 (5/6), 1027-1050 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 5 figures; change in title plus other minor changes; to be published in J. Stat. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1023/A:1020424610273

Uniform shear flow is a paradigmatic example of a nonequilibrium fluid state exhibiting non-Newtonian behavior. It is characterized by uniform density and temperature and a linear velocity profile $U_x(y)=a y$, where $a$ is the constant shear rate. In the case of a rarefied gas, all the relevant physical information is represented by the one-particle velocity distribution function $f({\bf r},{\bf v})=f({\bf V})$, with ${\bf V}\equiv {\bf v}-{\bf U}({\bf r})$, which satisfies the standard nonlinear integro-differential Boltzmann equation. We have studied this state for a two-dimensional gas of Maxwell molecules with grazing collisions in which the nonlinear Boltzmann collision operator reduces to a Fokker-Planck operator. We have found analytically that for shear rates larger than a certain threshold value the velocity distribution function exhibits an algebraic high-velocity tail of the form $f({\bf V};a)\sim |{\bf V}|^{-4-\sigma(a)}\Phi(\phi; a)$, where $\phi\equiv \tan V_y/V_x$ and the angular distribution function $\Phi(\phi; a)$ is the solution of a modified Mathieu equation. The enforcement of the periodicity condition $\Phi(\phi; a)=\Phi(\phi+\pi; a)$ allows one to obtain the exponent $\sigma(a)$ as a function of the shear rate. As a consequence of this power-law decay, all the velocity moments of a degree equal to or larger than $2+\sigma(a)$ are divergent. In the high-velocity domain the velocity distribution is highly anisotropic, with the angular distribution sharply concentrated around a preferred orientation angle which rotates counterclock-wise as the shear rate increases.

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