A multiscale variational approach to the kinetics of viscous classical liquids: The coarse-grained mean field approximation

YV Sereda, PJ Ortoleva - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A closed kinetic equation for the single-particle density of a viscous simple liquid is derived
using a variational method for the Liouville equation and a coarse-grained mean-field …