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Il presente articolo si propone la descrizione di alcuni risultati relativi ai fenomeni di rilassamento omogeneo in una miscela binaria di sfere rigide. Il sistema di equazioni di Boltzmann che regge l'evoluzione temporale delle funzioni di distribuzione dei gas componenti viene risolto numericamente con un metodo che combina l'uso di differenze finite con la valutazione dell'integrale di collisione mediante un inetodo di Monte Carlo. La tecnica presentata costituisce per alcuni aspetti la generalizzazione di quella proposta da Aristov e Tcheremissine per un singolo gas. Si evidenzia inoltre come l'algoritmo sia di per sè in massima parte vettorizzabile e si presentano alcuni risultati ottenuti sull'elaboratore vettoriale CRAY-XMP48.
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The aim of the paper is the presentation of results obtained by the direct numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation in the case of a binary mixture of hard sphere gases. The system of two coupled Boltzmann equations is solved by a techique combining finite differences with the Monte Carlo evaluation of the Boltzmann collision integrals. It is shown how the technique proposed by Aristov and Tcheremissine for a single gas can be extended to a mixture. The resulting algorithm can be very well vectorized and the results of a few test calculations on the vector computer CRAY-XMP 48 are presented.
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Frezzotti, A., Pavani, R. Direct numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for a relaxation problem of a binary mixture of hard sphere gases. Meccanica 24, 139–143 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01559416
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