Download or read book From Hyperbolic Systems to Kinetic Theory written by Luc Tartar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book, penned by Luc Tartar of America’s Carnegie Mellon University, starts from the premise that equations of state are not always effective in continuum mechanics. Tartar relies on H-measures, a tool created for homogenization, to explain some of the weaknesses in the theory. These include looking at the subject from the point of view of quantum mechanics. Here, there are no "particles", so the Boltzmann equation and the second principle, can’t apply.