Relativistic BGK Model for Gas Mixtures

Abstract

Unlike the case for classical particles, the literature on BGK type models for relativistic gas mixture is extremely limited. There are a few results in which such relativistic BGK models for gas mixture are employed to compute transport coefficients. However, to the best knowledge of authors, relativistic BGK models for gas mixtures with complete presentation of the relaxation operators are missing in the literature. In this paper, we fill this gap by suggesting a BGK model for relativistic gas mixtures for which the existence of each equilibrium coefficients in the relaxation operator is rigorously guaranteed in a way that all the essential physical properties are satisfied such as the conservation laws, the H-theorem, the capturing of the correct equilibrium state, the indifferentiability principle, and the recovery of the classical BGK model in the Newtonian limit.