Statistical thermodynamics of a two-dimensional relativistic gas

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Montakhab, Afshin ^a   Ghodrat, Malihe ^a   Barati, Mahmood ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; EQUIPARTITION; IDEAL SYSTEMS; LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTIONS; MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOVING FRAMES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; RELATIVISTIC MODELS; RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES; STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSFORMATION LAWS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 65349089421     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031124     Document Type: Article

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