Comparison of relaxation phenomena in binary gas-mixtures of Maxwell molecules and hard spheres

The strategy for computing the Boltzmann collision integrals for gaseous mixtures is presented and bestowed to compute the fully non-linear Boltzmann collision integrals for hard sphere gas-mixtures. The Boltzmann collision integrals associated with the first 26 moments of each constituent in a gas-mixture are presented. Moreover, the Boltzmann collision integrals are exploited to study the relaxation phenomena of diffusion velocities, stresses and heat fluxes in binary gas-mixtures of Maxwell molecules and hard spheres.