A recursive algorithm and a series expansion related to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff
Analysis of PDEs
2017-04-03 v1
Abstract
We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff. This equation has a unique conservative weak solution , once the initial condition with finite mass and energy is fixed. Taking advantage of the energy conservation, we propose a recursive algorithm that produces a random variable such that . We also write down a series expansion of . Although both the algorithm and the series expansion might be theoretically interesting in that they explicitly express in terms of , we believe that the algorithm is not very efficient in practice and that the series expansion is rather intractable. This is a tedious extension to non-Maxwellian molecules of Wild's sum and of its interpretation by McKean.
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@article{arxiv.1703.10874,
title = {A recursive algorithm and a series expansion related to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff},
author = {Nicolas Fournier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10874},
year = {2017}
}