Chapman–Enskog derivation of the general
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Pierre-Henri Chavanis; Philippe Laurençot; Mohammed Lemou
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We use the Chapman-Enskog method to derive the Smoluchowski equation from the Kramers equation in a high friction limit. We consider two main extensions of this problem: we take into account a uniform rotation of the background medium and we consider a generalized class of Kramers equations associat