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Combining analytical and numerical methods, we study within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, a broad class of models relevant for the dynamics of dissipative fluids, including granular gases. We use the new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-23 E. Trizac , A. Barrat , M. H. Ernst

The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

Recently, a new class of semi-Lagrangian methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation has been introduced [8, 17, 18]. These methods work in a satisfactory way either in rarefied or fluid regime. Moreover, because of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Giovanni Russo , Pietro Santagati , Seok-Bae Yun

We present a method for solving the two-dimensional linearized collisionless Boltzmann equation using Fourier expansion along the orbits. It resembles very much solutions present in the literature, but it differs by the fact that everything…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Vauterin , H. Dejonghe

We consider the implementation of the split-step method where the linear part of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is solved using a finite-difference discretization of the spatial derivative. The von Neumann analysis predicts that this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-03 T. I. Lakoba

In this paper, we investigate the problems of Cauchy theory and exponential stability for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cut-off. We only deal with the physical case of hard potentials type interactions (with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Frédéric Hérau , Daniela Tonon , Isabelle Tristani

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

In this paper we study the numerical passage from the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without cut-off to the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation in the so-called grazing collision limit. To this aim we derive a Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Lorenzo Pareschi , Giuseppe Toscani , Cédric Villani

We develop the regularity theory of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cut-off and hard potentials (for instance, hard spheres), by (i) revisiting the Lp-theory to obtain constructive bounds, (ii) establishing propagation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Cédric Villani

In this work, we are concerned with the regularities of the solutions to Boltzmann equation with the physical collision kernels for the full range of intermolecular repulsive potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$. We give the new and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-23 Yemin Chen , Lingbing He

The entropic lattice Boltzmann framework proposed the construction of the discrete equilibrium by taking into consideration minimization of a discrete entropy functional. The effect of this form of the discrete equilibrium on properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-16 S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

The Strang splitting method has been widely used to solve nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations, with most theoretical convergence analysis assuming periodic boundary conditions. However, such analysis presents additional challenges for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Chaoyu Quan , Zhijun Tan , Yanyao Wu

We introduce numerical solvers for the steady-state Boltzmann equation based on the symmetric Gauss-Seidel (SGS) method. Due to the quadratic collision operator in the Boltzmann equation, the SGS method requires solving a nonlinear system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…

We present recent results [4, 28, 29] about the quantitative study of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator, and its application to the study of the trend to equilibrium for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

One of the biggest challenges for simulating the Boltzmann equation is the evaluation of fivefold collision integral. Given the recent successes of deep learning and the availability of efficient tools, it is an obvious idea to try to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

The simplified lattice Boltzmann method (SLBM) is a recent development in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) community, addressing the intrinsic limitations of the traditional LBM by directly evolving macroscopic quantities and maintaining…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhengwei He , Zhen Chen

In this paper we derive accurate numerical methods for the quantum Boltzmann equation for a gas of interacting bosons. The schemes preserve the main physical features of the continuous problem, namely conservation of mass and energy, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-15 P. A. Markowitch , L. Pareschi

The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

We theoretically explore boundary conditions for lattice Boltzmann methods, focusing on a toy two-velocities scheme to tackle a linear one-dimensional advection equation. By mapping lattice Boltzmann schemes to Finite Difference schemes, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Thomas Bellotti