We consider a body immersed in a perfect gas and moving under the action of a constant force. Body and gas are in thermal equilibrium. We assume a stochastic interaction body/medium: when a particle of the medium hits the body, it is absorbed and immediately re-emitted with a Maxwellian distribution. This system gives rise to a microscopic model of friction. We study the approach of the body velocity to the limiting velocity and prove that, under suitable smallness assumptions, the approach to equilibrium is
Keywords: kinetic theory of gases, Boltzmann equation, free molecular gas, friction problem, approach to equilibrium
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Aoki, Kazuo; Cavallaro, Guido; Marchioro, Carlo; Pulvirenti, Mario. On the motion of a body in thermal equilibrium immersed in a perfect gas. ESAIM: Modélisation mathématique et analyse numérique, Volume 42 (2008) no. 2, pp. 263-275. doi : 10.1051/m2an:2008007. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/m2an:2008007/
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