BGK and Fokker Planck Models for thermally perfect gases

Abstract

We propose two models of the Boltzmann equation (BGK and Fokker-Planck models) for rarefied flows of thermally perfect gases. These models take into account various models of energy, which are required for high temperature flows, like for atmospheric re-entry problems. We prove that these models satisfy conservation and entropy properties (H-theorem), and we derive their corresponding compressible Navier-Stokes asymptotics.