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Boltzmann introduced in the 1870's a logarithmic measure for the connection between the thermodynamical entropy and the probabilities of the microscopic configurations of the system. His entropic functional for classical systems was…
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We develop a rigorous formalism for the description of the kinetic evolution of infinitely many hard spheres. On the basis of the kinetic cluster expansions of cumulants of groups of operators of finitely many hard spheres the nonlinear…
We prove new moment-preserving polynomially weighted convolution estimates for the gain operator of the Boltzmann equation with hard potentials, including the critical case of hard-spheres. Our approach relies crucially on a novel…
The Hamiltonian formalism of the generalized unimodular gravity theory, which was recently suggested as a model of dark energy, is shown to be a complicated example of constrained dynamical system. The set of its canonical constraints has a…
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In this paper the conditions are investigated for the occurrence of the so-called macroscopic irreversibility property and the related phenomenon of decay to kinetic equilibrium which may characterize the $1-$body probability density…
Since the pioneering work of Maxwell and Boltzmann in the 1860s and 1870s, a major challenge in mathematical physics has been the derivation of macroscopic evolution equations from the fundamental microscopic laws of classical or quantum…
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We propose a combined computational approach based on the multi-phase-field and the lattice Boltzmann method for the motion of solid particles under the action of capillary forces. The accuracy of the method is analyzed by comparison with…
We investigate two-fluid BGK kinetic methods for binary fluids. The developed theory works for asymmetric as well as symmetric systems. For symmetric systems it recovers Sirovich's theory and is summarized in models A and B. For asymmetric…
The MDLG method establishes a direct link between a lattice-gas method and the coarse-graining of a Molecular Dynamics approach. Due to its connection to Molecular Dynamics, the MDLG rigorously recovers the hydrodynamics and allows to…
We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation with kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary conditions that describe possible short-range interactions between the binary mixture and the solid boundary. In the presence of surface diffusion on…
We derive the relativistic kinetic equation and collision kernel for dense gases of spin $0$ particles from quantum field theory based on the Wigner-function formalism. The formalism developed by Degroot can be used as an effective way for…
We consider the linear dissipative Boltzmann equation describing inelastic interactions of particles with a fixed background. For the simplified model of Maxwell molecules first, we give a complete spectral analysis, and deduce from it the…
A theory of freezing of a dense hard sphere gas is presented. Starting from a revised Enskog theory, hydrodynamic equations that account for non-local variations in the density but local variations in the flow field are derived using a…
Based on a chain of BBGKI equations with a modified boundary condition that takes into account multiparticle correlations, kinetic equations in the approximate "pairs" collisions and in the polarization approximation, taking into account…