Boltzmann Equation and Inverse Collisions. II. A Model for Association and Dissociation

摘要

The techniques of classical nonequilibrium statistical mechanics are applied to a gas which exhibits two distinct types of molecular interaction. The first allows chemical bonding to the extent of dimer formation; the second, impulsive in nature, provides a tractable mechanism for threehyphen;body energy exchange. Hydrodynamic equations are derived for each of the two quasicomponents. A formal description of the reaction kinetics is developed which leads to a perturbation method for obtaining corrections to a theory based on an assumption of uniformly canonical distributions.