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We present a quantum algorithm for computational fluid dynamics based on the Lattice-Boltzmann method. Our approach involves a novel encoding strategy and a modified collision operator, assuming full relaxation to the local equilibrium…

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Félix Garmirian , Marcel Pfeiffer

In this paper we present a fully deterministic method for the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation of rarefied gas dynamics in a bounded domain for multi-scale problems. Periodic, specular reflection and diffusive boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Francis Filbet

The Boltzmann collision operator for a dilute granular gas of inelastic rough hard spheres is much more intricate than its counterpart for inelastic smooth spheres. Now the one-body distribution function depends not only on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Andrés Santos

In this paper, we propose a new semi-Lagrangian scheme for the polyatomic ellipsoidal BGK model. In order to avoid time step restrictions coming from convection term and small Knudsen number, we combine a semi-Lagrangian approach for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung-Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

In kinetic theory, numerically solving the full Boltzmann equation is extremely expensive. This is because the Boltzmann collision operator involves a high-dimensional, nonlinear integral that must be evaluated at each spatial grid point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Lukas Einkemmer , Jingwei Hu , Shiheng Zhang

We propose a new deterministic numerical scheme, based on the discontinuous Galerkin method, for solving the Boltzamnn equation for rarefied gases. The new scheme guarantees the conservation of the mass, momentum and energy. We avoid any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Armando Majorana

Simulations of the discrete Boltzmann Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation are an important tool for understanding fluid dynamics in non-continuum regimes. Here, we introduce a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Karthik Ganeshan , David M. Williams

In this paper, we study a time discrete scheme for the initial value problem of the ES-BGK kinetic equation. Numerically solving these equations are challenging due to the nonlinear stiff collision (source) terms induced by small mean free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-01 Francis Filbet , Shi Jin

The Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), widely used in computational fluid dynamics for simulating hypersonic and other complicated flow phenomena, is extended in this work to electromagnetic problems by solving Maxwell's equations. In contrast to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

In rarefied gas flows, the spatial grid size could vary by several orders of magnitude in a single flow configuration (e.g., inside the Knudsen layer it is at the order of mean free path of gas molecules, while in the bulk region it is at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-02 Lei Wu

In [Phys. Rev. 94 (1954), 511-525], P.L. Bhatnagar, E.P. Gross and M. Krook introduced a kinetic equation (the BGK equation), effective in physical situations where the Knudsen number is small compared to the scales where Boltzmann's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Paolo Buttà , Mario Pulvirenti , Sergio Simonella

In this paper we develop high-order asymptotic-preserving methods for the spatially inhomogeneous quantum Boltzmann equation. We follow the work in Li and Pareschi, where asymptotic preserving exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Jingwei Hu , Qin Li , Lorenzo Pareschi

In this paper we present a parallelization strategy on distributed memory systems for the Fast Kinetic Scheme --- a semi-Lagrangian scheme developed in [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] for solving kinetic equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Jacek Narski

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

In this paper, we propose a numerical method for solving weakly compressible fluid flow based on a dynamical low-rank projector splitting. The low-rank splitting scheme is applied to the Boltzmann equation with BGK collision term, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Lukas Einkemmer

We present an exact solution of the quantum kinetic equation of a weakly interacting Fermi gas in the crossover from the degenerate Fermi-liquid regime to the classical Boltzmann gas. We construct families of orthogonal polynomials tailored…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-27 Hadrien Kurkjian

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, 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

In this paper, we consider the existence and asymptotic behavior of the fermionic quantum BGK model, which is a relaxation model of the quantum Boltzmann equation for fermions. More precisely, we establish the existence of unique classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Gi-Chan Bae , Seok-Bae Yun