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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 12–22, January–February, 1971.
The author wishes to thank S. V. Vallander and A. Z. Dolginov for discussions of the paper.
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Énder, I.A., Énder, A.Y. A method of solving the Boltzmann equation for strong deviations from a Maxwellian distribution. Fluid Dyn 6, 10–19 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045901
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