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The aim of this work is to analyze the entropy, entropy flux and entropy supply rate of granular fluids within the frameworks of the Boltzmann equation and continuum thermodynamics. It is shown that the entropy inequality for a granular gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-17 Gilberto M. Kremer

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem on the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system with collisions when initial data are around a constant equilibrium state. The main goal is the rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Renjun Duan , Qingqing Liu , Changjiang Zhu

A steady self-diffusion process in a gas of hard spheres at equilibrium is analyzed. The system exhibits a constant gradient of labeled particles. Neither the concentration of these particles nor its gradient are assumed to be small. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

The Boltzmann equation for d-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models is considered to analyze transport properties in spatially inhomogeneous states close to the simple shear flow. A normal solution is obtained via a Chapman--Enskog--like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vicente Garzo

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

A kinetic equation for a dilute gas of hard spheres confined between two parallel plates separated a distance smaller than two particle dimeters is derived. It is a Boltzmann-like equation, which incorporates the effect of the confinement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

In this work, we first develop a general mesoscopic multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (MRT-LB) model for the two-dimensional diffusion equation with the constant diffusion coefficient and source term, where the D2Q5 (five discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Ying Chen , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We obtain the first rigorous derivation of an incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with self-consistent and time-dependent forcing terms from the inelastic hard-spheres Boltzmann equation associated to the relevant case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 R. Alonso , B. Lods , I. Tristani

Consider a microscopic system of $N$ hard spheres that are initially independent (modulo the exclusion condition on particle positions) and identically distributed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the number $N$ of particles goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

This paper is devoted to diffusion limits of linear Boltzmann equations. When the equilibrium distribution function is Maxwellian distribution, it is well known that for an appropriate time scale, the small mean free path limit gives rise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Antoine Mellet , Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

We study the relaxation of a test particle immersed in a bath of field particles interacting via weak long-range forces. To order 1/N in the $N\to +\infty$ limit, the velocity distribution of the test particle satisfies a Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. H. Chavanis

The Einstein relation describes the response of a diffusing particle to a small constant external force. It states that, as the force tends to zero, the ratio of the limiting velocity to the force magnitude converges to the diffusivity…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Ahmed Bou-Rabee , Ruizhe Xu

The paper considers the convergence to equilibrium for measure solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff. We prove the exponential sharp rate of strong convergence to equilibrium for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Lu Xuguang , Clément Mouhot

We calculate the short time and the long time diffusion coefficient of a spherical tracer particle in a polymer solution in the low density limit by solving the Smoluchowski equation for a two-particle system and applying a generalized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Matthias Krüger , Markus Rauscher

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

We obtain a fast diffusion equation (FDE) as scaling limit of a sequence of zero-range process with symmetric unit rate. Fast diffusion effect comes from the fact that the diffusion coefficient goes to infinity as the density goes to zero.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Freddy Hernández , Milton Jara , Fábio J. Valentim

The scaling invariance for chaotic orbits near a transition from unlimited to limited diffusion in a dissipative standard mapping is explained via the analytical solution of the diffusion equation. It gives the probability of observing a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Edson D. Leonel , Celia Mayumi Kuwana , Makoto Yoshida , Juliano Antonio de Oliveira

This paper deals with solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for spatially uniform freely cooling inelastic Maxwell models for large times and for large velocities, and the nonuniform convergence to these limits. We demonstrate how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. H. Ernst , R. Brito

We prove a linear inequality between the entropy and entropy dissipation functionals for the linear Boltzmann operator (with a Maxwellian equilibrium background). This provides a positive answer to the analogue of Cercignani's conjecture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Marzia Bisi , José A. Cañizo , Bertrand Lods