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Instead, [[wikipedia:Numerical_methods_in_fluid_mechanics|numerical methods]] (including [[wikipedia:Finite_elements|finite elements]] and [[wikipedia:Lattice_Boltzmann_methods|lattice Boltzmann methods]]) are generally used to find approximate solutions to the various forms of the Boltzmann equation. Example applications range from [[wikipedia:Hypersonic_speed|hypersonic aerodynamics]] in rarefied gas flows<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal|title=A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows|url=https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6256|journal=Applied Mathematical Modelling|date=2011-03-01|pages=996–1015|volume=35|issue=3|doi=10.1016/j.apm.2010.07.027|first1=Ben|last1=Evans|first2=Ken|last2=Morgan|first3=Oubay|last3=Hassan}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=B.|last2=Walton|first2=S.P.|date=December 2017|title=Aerodynamic optimisation of a hypersonic reentry vehicle based on solution of the Boltzmann–BGK equation and evolutionary optimisation|journal=Applied Mathematical Modelling|volume=52|pages=215–240|doi=10.1016/j.apm.2017.07.024|issn=0307-904X|url=https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34688}}</ref> to plasma flows.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|title=Numerical Solution of the Boltzmann Equation I: Spectrally Accurate Approximation of the Collision Operator|journal=SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis|date=2000-01-01|issn=0036-1429|pages=1217–1245|volume=37|issue=4|doi=10.1137/S0036142998343300|first1=L.|last1=Pareschi|first2=G.|last2=Russo|citeseerx=10.1.1.46.2853}}</ref> An application of the Boltzmann equation in electrodynamics is the calculation of the electrical conductivity - the result is in leading order identical with the semiclassical result.<ref name=":13">H.J.W. Müller-Kirsten, Basics of Statistical Mechanics, Chapter 13, 2nd ed., World Scientific (2013), <nowiki>ISBN 978-981-4449-53-3</nowiki>. </ref>

Instead, [[wikipedia:Numerical_methods_in_fluid_mechanics|numerical methods]] (including [[wikipedia:Finite_elements|finite elements]] and [[wikipedia:Lattice_Boltzmann_methods|lattice Boltzmann methods]]) are generally used to find approximate solutions to the various forms of the Boltzmann equation. Example applications range from [[wikipedia:Hypersonic_speed|hypersonic aerodynamics]] in rarefied gas flows<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal|title=A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows|url=https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6256|journal=Applied Mathematical Modelling|date=2011-03-01|pages=996–1015|volume=35|issue=3|doi=10.1016/j.apm.2010.07.027|first1=Ben|last1=Evans|first2=Ken|last2=Morgan|first3=Oubay|last3=Hassan}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=B.|last2=Walton|first2=S.P.|date=December 2017|title=Aerodynamic optimisation of a hypersonic reentry vehicle based on solution of the Boltzmann–BGK equation and evolutionary optimisation|journal=Applied Mathematical Modelling|volume=52|pages=215–240|doi=10.1016/j.apm.2017.07.024|issn=0307-904X|url=https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34688}}</ref> to plasma flows.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|title=Numerical Solution of the Boltzmann Equation I: Spectrally Accurate Approximation of the Collision Operator|journal=SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis|date=2000-01-01|issn=0036-1429|pages=1217–1245|volume=37|issue=4|doi=10.1137/S0036142998343300|first1=L.|last1=Pareschi|first2=G.|last2=Russo|citeseerx=10.1.1.46.2853}}</ref> An application of the Boltzmann equation in electrodynamics is the calculation of the electrical conductivity - the result is in leading order identical with the semiclassical result.<ref name=":13">H.J.W. Müller-Kirsten, Basics of Statistical Mechanics, Chapter 13, 2nd ed., World Scientific (2013), <nowiki>ISBN 978-981-4449-53-3</nowiki>. </ref>

相反，数值方法(包括'''[[wikipedia:Finite_elements|有限元 Finite Elements]]'''和'''[[格子玻尔兹曼方法|格子玻尔兹曼方法 Lattice Boltzmann Methods]]''')经常用来帮助人们寻找各种形式的玻尔兹曼方程的近似解。应用范围覆盖稀薄气流<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />中的'''[[wikipedia:Hypersonic_speed|高超音速空气动力学 Hypersonic Aerodynamics]'''到等离子流<ref name=":12" />。电动力学中，玻尔兹曼方程可以应用于电导率的计算，其结果与半经典结果一致<ref name=":13" />。

相反，数值方法(包括'''[[wikipedia:Finite_elements|有限元 Finite Elements]]'''和'''[[格子玻尔兹曼方法|格子玻尔兹曼方法 Lattice Boltzmann Methods]]''')经常用来帮助人们寻找各种形式的玻尔兹曼方程的近似解。应用范围覆盖稀薄气流<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />中的'''[[wikipedia:Hypersonic_speed|高超音速空气动力学 Hypersonic Aerodynamics]]'''到等离子流<ref name=":12" />。电动力学中，玻尔兹曼方程可以应用于电导率的计算，其结果与半经典结果一致<ref name=":13" />。

Close to [[wikipedia:Non-equilibrium_thermodynamics#Local_thermodynamic_equilibrium|local equilibrium]], solution of the Boltzmann equation can be represented by an [[wikipedia:Asymptotic_expansion|asymptotic expansion]] in powers of [[wikipedia:Knudsen_number|Knudsen number]] (the [[wikipedia:Chapman–Enskog_theory|Chapman-Enskog]] expansion<ref name=":14">Sydney Chapman; Thomas George Cowling The mathematical theory of non-uniform gases: an account of the kinetic theory of viscosity, thermal conduction, and diffusion in gases, Cambridge University Press, 1970. [[index.php?title=Special:BookSources/052140844X|ISBN 0-521-40844-X]] </ref>). The first two terms of this expansion give the [[wikipedia:Euler_equations_(fluid_dynamics)|Euler equations]] and the [[wikipedia:Navier-Stokes_equations|Navier-Stokes equations]]. The higher terms have singularities. The problem of developing mathematically the limiting processes, which lead from the atomistic view (represented by Boltzmann's equation) to the laws of motion of continua, is an important part of [[wikipedia:Hilbert's_sixth_problem|Hilbert's sixth problem]].<ref name=":15">{{cite journal|doi=10.1098/rsta/376/2118|volume=376|year=2018|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A|title=Theme issue 'Hilbert's sixth problem'|issue=2118|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Close to [[wikipedia:Non-equilibrium_thermodynamics#Local_thermodynamic_equilibrium|local equilibrium]], solution of the Boltzmann equation can be represented by an [[wikipedia:Asymptotic_expansion|asymptotic expansion]] in powers of [[wikipedia:Knudsen_number|Knudsen number]] (the [[wikipedia:Chapman–Enskog_theory|Chapman-Enskog]] expansion<ref name=":14">Sydney Chapman; Thomas George Cowling The mathematical theory of non-uniform gases: an account of the kinetic theory of viscosity, thermal conduction, and diffusion in gases, Cambridge University Press, 1970. [[index.php?title=Special:BookSources/052140844X|ISBN 0-521-40844-X]] </ref>). The first two terms of this expansion give the [[wikipedia:Euler_equations_(fluid_dynamics)|Euler equations]] and the [[wikipedia:Navier-Stokes_equations|Navier-Stokes equations]]. The higher terms have singularities. The problem of developing mathematically the limiting processes, which lead from the atomistic view (represented by Boltzmann's equation) to the laws of motion of continua, is an important part of [[wikipedia:Hilbert's_sixth_problem|Hilbert's sixth problem]].<ref name=":15">{{cite journal|doi=10.1098/rsta/376/2118|volume=376|year=2018|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A|title=Theme issue 'Hilbert's sixth problem'|issue=2118|doi-access=free}}</ref>