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For a general class of linear collisional kinetic models in the torus, including in particular the linearized Boltzmann equation for hard spheres, the linearized Landau equation with hard and moderately soft potentials and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Lukas Neumann

We develop and analyze a class of structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin schemes for the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model, reformulated as a hyperbolic system through a Hermite expansion in the velocity variable. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yi Cai , Alain Blaustein , Tao Xiong , Francis Filbet

This memoir attempts at a systematic study of convergence to stationary state for certain classes of degenerate diffusive equations, by means of well-chosen Lyapunov functionals. Typical examples are the kinetic Fokker--Planck and Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Villani

We prove long-time contractivity estimates and exponential rates of convergence to equilibrium for solutions of hypoelliptic diffusion equations, which include the well-known Kolmogorov equation and similar kinetic Fokker-Planck equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nicolò Forcillo , Alessio Porretta

We consider a kinetic model for a two component gas mixture without chemical reactions. Our goal is to study hypocoercivity for the linearized BGK model for gas mixtures in continuous phase space. By constructing an entropy functional, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Liu Liu , Marlies Pirner

In this paper, we provide a general framework to study general class of linear and nonlinear kinetic equations with random uncertainties from the initial data or collision kernels, and their stochastic Galerkin approximations, in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Liu Liu , Shi Jin

We consider a 1D-2V Vlasov-Fokker-Planck multi-species ionic description coupled to fluid electrons. We address temporal stiffness with implicit time stepping, suitably preconditioned. To address temperature disparity in time and space, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 William T. Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei N. Simakov

We present the quantitative method of the recent work arXiv:2209.09340 in a simple setting, together with a compactness argument that was not included in arXiv:2209.09340 and has interest per se. We are concerned with the exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Helge Dietert , Frédéric Hérau , Harsha Hutridurga , Clément Mouhot

In this article, we propose a finite volume discretization of a one dimensional nonlinear reaction kinetic model proposed in [Neumann, Schmeiser, Kint. Rel. Mod. 2016], which describes a 2-species recombination-generation process.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Tino Laidin , Thomas Rey

We extend to multi-dimensions the work of [1], where new fully explicit kinetic methods were built for the approximation of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion problems. The fundamental principles from the earlier work are retained:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall

This paper is devoted to the linearized Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system in presence of an external potential of confinement. We investigate the large time behaviour of the solutions using hypocoercivity methods and a notion of scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Lanoir Addala , Jean Dolbeault , Xingyu Li , Mohamed Lazhar Tayeb

We are interested in the long-time behaviour of the kinetic Vicsek equation, rigorously derived as the mean-field limit~\cite{bolley2012meanfield} of a coupled system of~$N$ stochastic differential equations describing particles moving at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Émeric Bouin , Amic Frouvelle

In this paper we study the effect of randomness in kinetic equations that preserve mass. Our focus is in proving the analyticity of the solution with respect to the randomness, which naturally leads to the convergence of numerical methods.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Qin Li , Li Wang

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

This paper deals with the study of some particular kinetic models, where the randomness acts only on the velocity variable level. Usually, the Markovian generator cannot satisfy any Poincar\'e's inequality. Hence, no Gronwall's lemma can…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Pierre Monmarché

We consider kinetic Fokker-Planck (or Vlasov-Fokker-Planck) equations on the torus with Maxwellian or fat tail local equilibria. Results based on weak norms have recently been achieved by S. Armstrong and J.-C. Mourrat in case of Maxwellian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Giovanni Brigati

We propose a kinetic relaxation-model to describe a generation-recombination reaction of two species. The decay to equilibrium is studied by two recent methods for proving hypocoercivity of the linearized equations. Exponential decay of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Lukas Neumann , Christian Schmeiser

This paper is concerned with a modified entropy method to establish the large-time convergence towards the (unique) steady state, for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with non-quadratic confinement potentials in whole space. We extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Anton Arnold , Gayrat Toshpulatov

In this article we develop a new abstract strategy for proving ergodicity with explicit computable rate of convergence for diffusions associated with a degenerate Kolmogorov operator L. A crucial point is that the evolution operator L may…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-04 Martin Grothaus , Patrik Stilgenbauer

This paper derives a kinetic equation for a two-dimensional single species point vortex system. We consider a situation (different from the ones considered previously) of weak mean flow where the time scale of the macroscopic motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori , Pierre-Henri Chavanis