Recovering Navier–Stokes Equations from Asymptotic Limits of the Boltzmann Gas Mixture Equation

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the derivation of macroscopic fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann mesoscopic dynamics of a binary mixture of hard-sphere gas particles. Specifically the hydrodynamics limit is performed by employing different time and space scalings. The paper shows that, depending on the magnitude of the parameters which define the scaling, the macroscopic quantities (number density, mean velocity and local temperature) are solutions of the acoustic equation, the linear incompressible Euler equation and the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation. The derivation is formally tackled by the recent moment method proposed by [C. Bardos, et al., J. Stat. Phys. 63 (1991) 323] and the results generalize the analysis performed in [C. Bianca, et al., Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simulat. 29 (2015) 240].