Kinetic equations for moderately dense polyatomic gases

Bogolyubov's method is used to derive kinetic equations for spatially inhomogeneous polyatomic gases. These equations determine the evolution in time of the different single-particle matrix functions in accordance with different conditions of correlation weakening for polyatomic gases. Expressions are obtained for the local binary and ternary collision integrals with allowance for identity and degeneracy of the internal states of the molecules; corrections are also obtained for the local integrals in the approximation of binary collisions and these take into account the spatial inhomogeneity of the gas.