Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB714101);Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory for Hydroscience and Engineering in Tsinghua University (Grant No. 2008-ZY-6)
The homotopy analysis method (HAM), as a new mathematical tool, has been employed to solve many nonlinear problems. As a fundamental equation in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the Boltzmann integro-differentia...