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A combined Chapman-Enskog and Grad method. I. Monatomic gases and mixtures

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A method that combines the features of the methods of Chapman-Enskog and Grad is proposed to determine successive approximations to the transport coefficients. In this work it is applied to monatomic gases and mixtures.

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  1. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19091, 81531-970, Curitiba, Brazil

    A. G. Bezerra Jr., S. Reinecke & G. M. Kremer

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Bezerra, A.G., Reinecke, S. & Kremer, G.M. A combined Chapman-Enskog and Grad method. I. Monatomic gases and mixtures. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn 6, 149–160 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01140896

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