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Kinetic equations with relaxation collision kernels are considered under the basic assumption of two collision invariants, namely mass and energy. The collision kernels are of BGK-type with a general local Gibbs state, which may be quite different from the Gaussian. By the use of the diffusive length/time scales, energy transport systems consisting of two parabolic equations with the position density and the energy density as unknowns are derived on a formal level. The H theorem for the kinetic model is presented, and the entropy for the energy transport systems, which is inherited from the kinetic model, is derived. The energy transport systems for specific examples of the global Gibbs state, such as a power law with negative exponent, a cut-off power law with positive exponent, the Maxwellian, Bose–Einstein, and Fermi–Dirac distributions, arepresented.
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MSC classification (2000): Primary: 82C40, 35B40; Secondary: 35K55, 45K05, 82D05, 85A05x
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Aoki, K., Markowich, P. & Takata, S. Kinetic Relaxation Models for Energy Transport. J Stat Phys 127, 287–312 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-006-9273-x
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