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Extended hydrodynamics from Enskog’s equation for a two-dimensional system general formalism Hideaki Ugawa∗ and Patricio Cordero† Departamento de F´ısica, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (Dated: May 25, 2006) Balance equations are derived from Enskog’s kinetic equation for a two-dimensional system of hard disks using Grad’s moment expansion method. This set of equations constitute an extended hydrodynamics for mod- erately dense bi-dimensional fluids. The set of independent hydrodynamic fields in the present formulations are: density, velocity, temperature and also—following Grad’s original idea—the symmetric and traceless pres- k sure tensor p i j and the heat flux vector q . An approximation scheme similar in spirit to one made by Grad in his original work is made. Once the hydrodynamics is derived it is used to discuss the nature of a simple one-dimensional heat conduction problem. It is shown that, not too far from equilibrium, the nonequilibrium pressure in this case is a functional of the density, temperature and heat flux vector. PACS numbers: 51.10.+y, 05.20.Jj, 44.10.+i, 05.70.Ln I. INTRODUCTION homogeneous nonequilibrium state. From this they obtained approximate hydrodynamic equations such that the conserva-