Download or read book A Kinetic Theory Development of the Equations of Motion of a Diatomic Gas written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liouville equation is solved for a diatomic gas in molecular chaos. Modelling the gas molecule as a rigid rotor yields a Boltzmann type equation in eleven independent variables. Applying Enskog's expansion method of solution to the Boltzmann type equation and substituting the first two terms of the distribution equations produces the equivalent of the Navier Stokes equations in five space. The resulting stress tensor predicts the development of periodic stresses approximately ten orders of magnitude smaller than the shear stresses. Other predictions agree closely with experiment and statistical thermodynamics. Keywords: Statistical Mechanics.