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Spectral Closure for the Linear Boltzmann-BGK Equation

Analysis of PDEs 2023-06-13 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give an explicit description of the spectral closure for the three-dimensional linear Boltzmann-BGK equation in terms of the macroscopic fields, density, flow velocity and temperature. This results in a new linear fluid dynamics model which is valid for any relaxation time. The non-local exact fluid dynamics equations are compared to the Euler, Navier--Stokes and Burnett equations. Our results are based on a detailed spectral analysis of the linearized Boltzmann-BGK operator together with a suitable choice of spectral projection.

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@article{arxiv.2306.07103,
  title  = {Spectral Closure for the Linear Boltzmann-BGK Equation},
  author = {Florian Kogelbauer and Ilya Karlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07103},
  year   = {2023}
}
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