Globally hyperbolic moment model of arbitrary order for the three-dimensional special relativistic Boltzmann equation with the Anderson-Witting collision

This paper continues to derive the globally hyperbolic moment model of arbitrary order for the three-dimensional special relativistic Boltzmann equation with the Anderson-Witting collision. The method is the model reduction by the operator projection. Finding an orthogonal basis of the weighted polynomial space is crucial and built on infinite families of the complicate relativistic Grad type orthogonal polynomials depending on a parameter and the real spherical harmonics instead of the irreducible tensors. We study the properties of those functions carefully, including their recurrence relations, their derivatives with respect to the independent variable and parameter, and the zeros of the orthogonal polynomials. Our moment model is proved to be globally hyperbolic and linearly stable. Moreover, the Lorentz-covariance and the quasi-one-dimensional case, the non-relativistic and ultra-relativistic limits are also studied.