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Ghost Effect from Boltzmann Theory: Expansion with Remainder

Analysis of PDEs 2023-09-20 v3

Abstract

Consider the limit ε0\varepsilon\rightarrow0 of the steady Boltzmann problem \begin{align} v\cdot\nabla_x\mathfrak{F}=\varepsilon^{-1}Q[\mathfrak{F},\mathfrak{F}],\quad \mathfrak{F}\big|_{v\cdot n<0}=M_w\displaystyle\int_{v'\cdot n>0} \mathfrak{F}(v')|v'\cdot n|\mathrm{d}{v'}, \end{align} where Mw(x0,v):=12π(Tw(x0))2exp(v22Tw(x0))\displaystyle M_w(x_0,v):=\frac{1}{2\pi\big(T_w(x_0)\big)^2} \exp\bigg(-\frac{|v|^2}{2T_w(x_0)}\bigg) for x0Ωx_0\in\partial\Omega is the wall Maxwellian in the diffuse-reflection boundary condition. In the natural case of Tw=O(1)|\nabla T_w|=O(1), for any constant P>0P>0, the Hilbert expansion leads to \begin{align}\label{expansion} \mathfrak{F}\approx \mu+\varepsilon\bigg\{\mu\bigg(\rho_1+u_1\cdot v+T_1\frac{|v|^2-3T}{2}\bigg)-\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\left(\mathscr{A}\cdot\frac{\nabla_xT}{2T^2}\right)\bigg\} \end{align} where μ(x,v):=ρ(x)(2πT(x))32exp(v22T(x))\displaystyle\mu(x,v):=\frac{\rho(x)}{\big(2\pi T(x)\big)^{\frac{3}{2}}} \exp\bigg(-\frac{|v|^2}{2T(x)}\bigg), and (ρ,u1,T)(\rho,u_1,T) is determined by a Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with "ghost" effect. The goal of this paper is to construct F\mathfrak{F} in the form of \begin{align}\label{aa 08} \mathfrak{F}(x,v)=&\mu+\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\varepsilon f_1+\varepsilon^2f_2\Big)+\mu_w^{\frac{1}{2}}\Big(\varepsilon f^B_1\Big)+\varepsilon^{\alpha}\mu^{\frac{1}{2}}R, \end{align} for interior solutions f1f_1, f2f_2 and boundary layer f1Bf^B_1, where μw\mu_w is μ\mu computed for T=TwT=T_w, and derive equation for the remainder RR with some constant α1\alpha\geq1. To prove the validity of the expansion suitable bounds on RR are needed, which are provided in the companion paper [Esposito-Guo-Rossana-Wu2023].

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.09560,
  title  = {Ghost Effect from Boltzmann Theory: Expansion with Remainder},
  author = {Raffaele Esposito and Yan Guo and Rossana Marra and Lei Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09560},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

27 pages; references updated. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2301.09427

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