The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution describes the probability distribution of molecular speeds in a sample of an ideal gas.

Mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the behavior of gases.

Strain and Gressman show that Boltzmann’s equation will always produce the right answer for gases that are close to equilibrium, such as the air in a building close to room temperature.

Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

Johnson clearly has a knack for prose, and his passion – for both Boltzmann and the equation S = k log W that is considered to be his greatest accomplishment – shines through. For the reader who ...

Posted: Dec 02, 2014: Taming the Boltzmann equation (Nanowerk News) Physicists use the Boltzmann equation to calculate the statistical distribution of the particles in a conventional gaseous ...

It was already known how to derive the Boltzmann equation from Newton’s laws on very short timescales, but that doesn’t suffice for Hilbert’s program, because real-world fluids can flow for ...

Boltzmann Transport Equation: A fundamental integro-differential equation that describes the statistical distribution of particles as they undergo collisions and transport through a medium.