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In this paper, we establish hypocoercivity for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation with the presence of an external electrical potential under the Maxwell boundary condition. We will construct a modified entropy Lyapunov functional, which…

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We prove a stochastic formula for the Gaussian relative entropy in the spirit of Borell's formula for the Laplace transform. As an application, we give unified and short proofs of a number of functional inequalities.

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The authors propose and analyze a well-posed numerical scheme for a type of ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problem by using a constrained minimization approach combined with the weak Galerkin finite element method. The resulting Euler-Lagrange…

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In this paper, explicit method of constructing approximations (the Triangle Entropy Method) is developed for nonequilibrium problems. This method enables one to treat any complicated nonlinear functionals that fit best the physics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

We present a systematic study of the reconstruction of a non-negative function via maximum entropy approach utilizing the information contained in a finite number of moments of the function. For testing the efficacy of the approach, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Parthapratim Biswas , Arun K. Bhattacharya

A general lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed for solving nonlinear partial differential equations with the form $\partial_t \phi+\sum_{k=1}^{m} \alpha_k \partial_x^k \Pi_k (\phi)=0$, where $\alpha_k$ are constant coefficients, and…

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We prove short-time existence for the Einstein-Euler-Entropy system for non-isentropic fluids with data in uniformly local Sobolev spaces. The cases of compact as well as non-compact Cauchy surfaces are covered. The method employed uses a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Marcelo M. Disconzi

Entropy-like functionals on operator algebras have been studied since the pioneering work of von Neumann, Umegaki, Lindblad, and Lieb. The most well-known are the von Neumann entropy $trace (\rho\log \rho)$ and a generalization of the…

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We establish a new class of entropy structures for \(3\)-wave kinetic equations with a broad family of interaction weights. Unlike the classical entropies arising from detailed balance, these estimates are generated by a one-sided algebraic…

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The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom and the wide range of both spatial and temporal scales render…

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Microscopic formula to describe the entropy of biomolecular solutions are derived based on the Gibbs formula of entropy, and the generalized Langevin theory combined with the RISM/3D-RISM theory. Two formula are derived: one is concerned…

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We introduce a structured approach to the construction of linear BGK-type collision operators ensuring that the resulting Lattice-Boltzmann methods are stable with respect to a weighted $L^2$-norm. The results hold for particular boundary…

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We generalize the usual exponential Boltzmann factor to any reasonable and potentially observable distribution function, $B(E)$. By defining generalized logarithms $\Lambda$ as inverses of these distribution functions, we are led to a…

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We consider a rather general class of non-local in time Fokker-Planck equations and show by means of the entropy method that as $t\to \infty$ the solution converges in $L^1$ to the unique steady state. Important special cases are the…

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Boltzmann defined the entropy of a macroscopic system in a macrostate $M$ as the $\log$ of the volume of phase space (number of microstates) corresponding to $M$. This agrees with the thermodynamic entropy of Clausius when $M$ specifies the…

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We develop a method of obtaining a hierarchy of new higher-order entropies in the context of compressible models with local and non-local diffusion and isentropic pressure. The local viscosity is allowed to degenerate as the density…

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An entropic formulation of relativistic continuum mechanics is developed in the Landau-Lifshitz frame. We introduce two spatial scales, one being the small scale representing the linear size of each material particle and the other the large…

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