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In this work, we present an asymptotic-preserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Boltzmann equation that effectively handles multi-scale transport phenomena. The main challenge lies in designing appropriate moments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Xiaofeng Cai , Zhen Hao , Liu Liu , Jiayu Wan

Boltzmann equation requires some alternative simpler kinetic model like BGK to replace the collision term. Such a kinetic model which replaces the Boltzmann collision integral should preserve the basic properties and characteristics of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-31 Ajit Kumar Mahendra , Ram Kumar Singh

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. This approach is a two-step process that acts on the weak form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-06 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

A novel, conservative discontinuous Galerkin algorithm is presented for particle kinetics on manifolds. The motion of particles on the manifold is represented using using both canonical and non-canonical Hamiltonian formulations. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Grant Johnson , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

By using the quantum maximum entropy principle we formally derive, from a underlying kinetic description, isothermal (hydrodynamic and diffusive) quantum fluid equations for particles with Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 Luigi Barletti , Carlo Cintolesi

In the article, correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert method and the Enskog error are considered. The equations system of multi-component nonequilibrium gas-dynamics is derived,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-12 Sergey A. Serov , Svetlana S. Serova

In this work, the use of the Boltzmann collision operator for dissipative quantum transport is analyzed. Its mathematical role on the description of the time-evolution of the density matrix during a collision can be understood as processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Z. Zhan , E. Colomes , X. Oriols

A model is presented for the solution of electrokinetic phenomena of colloidal suspensions in fluid mixtures. We solve the discrete Boltzmann equation with a BGK collision operator using the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate binary fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-09 Nicolas Rivas , Stefan Frijters , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Jens Harting

We present high-order, fully explicit projective integration schemes for nonlinear collisional kinetic equations such as the BGK and Boltzmann equation. The methods first take a few small (inner) steps with a simple, explicit method (such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Ward Melis , Thomas Rey , Giovanni Samaey

An implicit and conservative numerical scheme is proposed for the isotropic quantum Fokker-Planck equation describing the evolution of degenerate electrons subject to elastic collisions with other electrons and ions. The electron-ion and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 H. P. Le

A new form of the model collision operator for a Boltzmann gas of hard spheres and Coulomb plasma is derived. One-component and many-component systems are considered. The collision operator proposed takes properly into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-23 Viacheslav V. Belyi

Numerical simulation of turbulent fluid dynamics needs to either parameterize turbulence-which introduces large uncertainties-or explicitly resolve the smallest scales-which is prohibitively expensive. Here we provide evidence through…

A non-perturbative analysis of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model kinetic equation for finite values of the Knudsen number is presented. This analysis indicates why discrete kinetic versions of the BGK equation, and notably the Lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mauro Sbragaglia , Sauro Succi

Paper presents a new solver for numerical solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with Shakhov model collision integral (S-model) for arbitrary spatial domains. Numerical method utilizes Tensor-Train decomposition, which allows to reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 A. V. Chikitkin , E. K. Kornev , V. A. Titarev

The collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE) is a fundamental equation that governs the dynamics of a broad range of astrophysical systems from space plasma to star clusters and galaxies. It is computationally expensive to integrate the CBE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Soichiro Yamazaki , Fumio Uchida , Kotaro Fujisawa , Koichi Miyamoto , Naoki Yoshida

We present the efficient and universal numerical method for simulation of interacting quantum gas kinetics on a finite momentum lattice, based on the Boltzmann equation for occupation numbers. Usually, the study of models with two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 I. O. Kuznetsov , P. F. Kartsev

This work addresses a central challenge in the numerical analysis of the cutoff spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation: the development of rigorously justified, accurate numerical schemes. We present (i) a novel Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yanzhi Gui , Ling-Bing He , Liu Liu

A new implicit BGK collision model using a semi-Lagrangian approach is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing models, in which the implicit BGK collision is resolved either by a temporal extrapolation or by a variable transformation, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Leitao Chen , Sauro Succi , Xiaofeng Cai , Laura Schaefer

In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either Fokker-Planck or linearized BGK collision operator. Thanks to appropriate uniform estimates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Maxime Herda , Thomas Rey

As one of the main governing equations in kinetic theory, the Boltzmann equation is widely utilized in aerospace, microscopic flow, etc. Its high-resolution simulation is crucial in these related areas. However, due to the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Zhengyi Li , Bin Dong , Yanli Wang