Using a kinetic BGK model to determine transport coefficients of gas mixtures

Abstract: We consider a non reactive two component gas mixture. In a macroscopic description of a gas mixture we expect four physical coefficients characterizing the physical behaviour of the gases to appear. These are the diffusion coefficient, the viscosity coefficient, the heat conductivity and the thermal diffusion parameter in the Navier-Stokes equations. We present a Chapman-Enskog expansion of a kinetic model for gas mixtures by Klingenberg, Pirner and Puppo, 2017 that has three free parameters in order to capture three of these four physical coefficients. In addition, we propose several possible extensions to an ellipsoidal statistical model for gas mixtures in order to capture the fourth coefficient.