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On contrary to the customary thought, the well-known ``lemma'' that the distribution function of a collisionless Boltzmann gas keeps invariant along a molecule's path represents not the strength but the weakness of the standard theory. One…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

We propose a Hermite spectral method for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation. For the inverse-power-law model, we generalize an approximate quadratic collision operator defined in the normalized and dimensionless setting to an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Zhicheng Hu , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We show that the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation evolves as the gradient flow of the entropy with respect to a suitable geometry on the space of probability measures which takes the collision process into account. This gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Matthias Erbar

We propose a Hermite spectral method for the inelastic Boltzmann equation, which makes two-dimensional periodic problem computation affordable by the hardware nowadays. The new algorithm is based on a Hermite expansion, where the expansion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang

We introduce a numerical scheme for the full multi-species Boltzmann equation based on Hermite spectral method. With the proper choice of expansion centers for different species, a practical algorithm is derived to evaluate the complicated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang , Haoxuan Xu

We introduce a practical criterion that justifies the propagation and appearance of $L^{p}$-norms for the solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with very soft potentials without cutoff. Such criterion also provides a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Ricardo J. Alonso , Pierre Gervais , Bertrand Lods

The recent development of spectral method has been praised for its high-order convergence in simulating complex physical problems. The combination of embedded boundary method and spectral method becomes a mainstream way to tackle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Po-Yi Wu , Cheng-Hong Robert Kao , Tony Wen-Hann Sheu

We prove a strong/weak stability estimate for the 3D homogeneous Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-1,0)$) using the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost. This in particular implies the uniqueness in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Liping Xu

An original spectral study of the compressible hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) on standard lattice is proposed. In this framework, the mass and momentum equations are addressed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), while finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Florian Renard , Gauthier Wissocq , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

Supersonic flow simulations face challenges in trans-scale modeling, numerical stability, and complex field analysis due to inherent nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and multiscale characteristics. The discrete Boltzmann method (DBM) provides a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yanhong Wu , Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Bin Yang

We propose an entropic Fourier method for the numerical discretization of the Boltzmann collision operator. The method, which is obtained by modifying a Fourier Galerkin method to match the form of the discrete velocity method, can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

The Boltzmann equation, an integro-differential equation for the molecular distribution function in the physical and velocity phase space, governs the fluid flow behavior at a wide range of physical conditions, including compressible,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Shashank Jaiswal , Alina A. Alexeenko , Jingwei Hu

This paper presents a new method for the solution of multiscale stochastic differential equations at the diffusive time scale. In contrast to averaging-based methods, e.g., the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) or the equation-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 A. Abdulle , G. A. Pavliotis , U. Vaes

The transport and continuum equations exhibit a number of conservation laws. For example, scalar multiplication is conserved by the transport equation, while positivity of probabilities is conserved by the continuum equation. Certain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Henry O. Jacobs , Ram Vasudevan

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann scheme that solves the quasi-static equations of linear elasticity in two dimensions. In contrast to previous works, our formulation solves for a single distribution function with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Oliver Boolakee , Martin Geier , Laura De Lorenzis

Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

A semi-classical approach to the study of the evolution of anyonic excitations--elementary particles with fractional statistics, complementing bosons and fermions--is through the Boltzmann equation for anyons. This work reviews a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Niclas Bernhoff

We report a study of the homogeneous isotropic Boltzmann equation for an open system. We seek for nonequilibrium steady solutions in presence of forcing and dissipation. Using the language of weak turbulence theory, we analyze the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Davide Proment , Miguel Onorato , Pietro Asinari , Sergey Nazarenko

With applications in astroparticle physics in mind, we generalize a method for the solution of the nonlinear, space homogeneous Boltzmann equation with isotropic distribution function to arbitrary matrix elements. The method is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Hohenegger