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A granular gas subjected to a permanent injection of energy is described by means of hydrodynamic equations derived from a moment expansion method. The method uses as reference function not a Maxwellian distribution $f_{\sf M}$ but a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosa Ramirez , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto , Patricio Cordero

Within the relaxation time approximation under a constant mass profile, we investigate the collective dynamics of a system of massive relativistic particles described by the Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. We analytically derive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Ali Hataei , Roya Heydari , Farid Taghinavaz

We consider a class of nonlinear, spatially inhomogeneous kinetic equations of BGK-type with density dependent collision rates. These equations share the same superlinearity as the Boltzmann equation, and fall into the class of run and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Josephine Evans , Daniel Morris , Havva Yoldaş

Systems of particles with long range interactions present two important processes: first, the formation of out-of-equilibrium quasi-stationary states (QSS), and the collisional relaxation towards Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium in a much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Fernanda P. C. Benetti , Bruno Marcos

We propose a generalization of quantum mechanical equations in the hydrodynamic form by introducing, into the Lagrangian density, terms taking into account the diffusion velocity at zero and finite temperatures and the diffusion pressure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 O. N. Golubjeva , S. V. Sidorov

Using methods of kinetic theory and liquid state theory we propose a description of the non-equilibrium behavior of molecular fluids which takes into account their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties. The present work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-24 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We present two observations related to theapplication of linear (LFE) and nonlinear fractional equations (NFE). First, we give the comparison and estimates of the role of the fractional derivative term to the normal diffusion term in a LFE.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Weitzner , G. M. Zaslavsky

In Physica A vol 387(24) (2008) pp6079-6094 [1], a kinetic equation for gas flows was proposed that leads to a set of four macroscopic conservation equations, rather than the traditional set of three equations. The additional equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 S. Kokou Dadzie , Jason M. Reese

We establish the fractional diffusion limit of the kinetic scattering equation with diffusive boundary condition in a strongly convex bounded domain $\mathcal{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. According to the nature of the boundary condition, two…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Loïc Béthencourt , Nicolas Fournier

Consider ``stochastic differential equations" driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H (1/4 <H< 1). Their solutions are sometimes called fractional diffusion processes. The main purpose of this paper is conditioning these…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Yuzuru Inahama

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

In view of the role of reaction equations in physical problems, the authors derive the explicit solution of a fractional reaction equation of general character, that unifies and extends earlier results. Further, an alternative shorter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

This paper presents a hybrid numerical method for linear collisional kinetic equations with diffusive scaling. The aim of the method is to reduce the computational cost of kinetic equations by taking advantage of the lower dimensionality of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Tino Laidin

We study, globaly in time, the velocity distribution $f(v,t)$ of a spatially homogeneous system that models a system of electrons in a weakly ionized plasma, subjected to a constant external electric field $E$. The density $f$ satisfies a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Carlen , R. Esposito , J. L. Lebowitz , R. Marra , A. Rokhlenko

We consider a particle living in $\mathbb{R}_+$, whose velocity is a positive recurrent diffusion with heavy-tailed invariant distribution when the particle lives in $(0,\infty)$. When it hits the boundary $x=0$, the particle restarts with…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Loïc Béthencourt

This paper models the classical diffusion of a main particle through a heatbath by means of a pre-limit microscopic representation of its drifted momentum and energy transfers at collision times. The collision point linear interpolated path…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johan Beumee

We introduce a fractional Kramers equation for a particle interacting with a thermal heat bath and external non-linear force field. For the force free case the velocity damping follows the Mittag-Leffler relaxation and the diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Barkai , R. Silbey

Fractional calculus has been used to describe physical systems with complexity. Here, we show that a fractional calculus approach can restore or include complexity in any physical systems that can be described by partial differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kyle Rockwell , Ezio Iacocca

Fractional diffusion equations for three-dimensional lattice models based on fractional-order differences of the Grunwald-Letnikov type are suggested. These lattice fractional diffusion equations contain difference operators that describe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

We study the hydrodynamic limit for a model of symmetric exclusion processes with heavy-tailed long jumps and in contact with infinitely extended reservoirs. We show how the corresponding hydrodynamic equations are affected by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Cédric Bernardin , Pedro Cardoso , Patricia Gonçalves , Stefano Scotta