“…) with i = x, y, or z. Equation (12) represents random components of the initial velocity vector sampled from a Maxwellian distribution[6,7], where R ji are all independent random numbers with a uniform distribution between zero and one. The initial conditions are obtained from the velocity vector v n0 = v n0,xx +v n0,yŷ +v n0,zẑ and position vector r n0 = R[ 1,1]x 3ŷ+0ẑ, wherex,ŷ, andẑ are Cartesian unit vectors and R[x 1 , x 2 ] is a random number with a uniform distribution between x 1 and x 2 .…”