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Heat conduction in relativistic neutral gases revisited

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The kinetic theory of dilute gases to first order in the gradients yields linear relations between forces and fluxes. The heat flux for the relativistic gas has been shown to be related not only to the temperature gradient but also to the density gradient in the representation where number density, temperature and hydrodynamic velocity are the independent state variables. In this work we show the calculation of the corresponding transport coefficients from the full Boltzmann equation and compare the magnitude of the relativistic correction.

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García-Perciante, A.L., Méndez, A.R. Heat conduction in relativistic neutral gases revisited. Gen Relativ Gravit 43, 2257–2275 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-011-1180-z

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