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The paper presents a solution to the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the construction of its discrete conservative model. Discrete analogue of the collision integral is presented as a contraction of a tensor, which is independent from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 George Arabuli

In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Alessandro Munafo , Jeffrey R. Haack , Irene M. Gamba , Thierry E. Magin

The rigorous justification of the hydrodynamic limits of kinetic equations in bounded domains has been actively investigated in recent years. In spite of the progress for the diffuse-reflection boundary case, the more challenging in-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Zhimeng Ouyang , Lei Wu

Numerically solving the Boltzmann kinetic equations with the small Knudsen number is challenging due to the stiff nonlinear collision term. A class of asymptotic preserving schemes was introduced in [6] to handle this kind of problems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Francis Filbet , Jingwei Hu , Shi Jin

In the paper, assuming that the motion of rarefied gases in a bounded domain is governed by the angular cutoff Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundary, we study the effects of both soft intermolecular interaction and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Renjun Duan , Feimin Huang , Yong Wang , Zhu Zhang

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method to compute linearized collision operators of the Boltzmann equation for variable hard-sphere gases. While the state-of-the-art method provides a computational cost O(MN^4 log N), with N being the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

Let rarefied gas be confined in an infinite layer with diffusely reflecting boundaries that are isothermal and non-moving. The initial-boundary value problem on the nonlinear Boltzmann equation governing the rarefied gas flow in such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Junhao Zhang

The parallel solver of the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS), as recently developed by Zhang \textit{et. al.} in Comput. Fluids 281 (2024) 106374, is an efficient method to find the solution of the Boltzmann equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

Consider 3D Boltzmann equation in convex domains with diffusive-reflection boundary condition. We study the hydrodynamic limits as the Knudsen number and Strouhal number $\epsilon\rightarrow 0^+$. Using the Hilbert expansion, we rigorously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Lei Wu , Zhimeng Ouyang

This manuscript derives adjoint equations for the numerical solution of the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). The formulation accounts for spatial transport and a range of boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Russel Caflisch , Yunan Yang

We present a new deterministic approach for the solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations in velocity space. In the new approach the collision operator has the form of a bilinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Alexander Alekseenko , Eswar Josyula

We present an exact solution of the relativistic Boltzmann equation for a system undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal and azimuthally symmetric transverse flow ("Gubser flow"). The resulting exact non-equilibrium dynamics is compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Gabriel S. Denicol , Ulrich W. Heinz , Mauricio Martinez , Jorge Noronha , Michael Strickland

We investigate the regularity issue for the diffuse reflection boundary problem to the stationary linearized Boltzmann equation for hard sphere potential, cutoff hard potential, or cutoff Maxwellian molecular gases in a strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 I-Kun Chen , Chun-Hsiung Hsia , Daisuke Kawagoe

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Vienna B. Rossmanith

A low-Mach-number flow, in the laminar regime, has intrinsically two characteristic spatial scales for a given time scale, or two characteristic temporal scales for a given spatial scale, and these dual scales are very different due to the…

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

A linear Boltzmann equation with nonautonomous collision operator is rigorously derived in the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the deterministic dynamics of a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Karsten Matthies , George Stone

A nonlinear diffusion equation, interpreted as a Wasserstein gradient flow, is numerically solved in one space dimension using a higher-order minimizing movement scheme based on the BDF (backward differentiation formula) discretization. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Bertram Düring , Philipp Fuchs , Ansgar Jüngel

This paper aims at obtaining, by means of integral transforms, analytical approximations in short times of solutions to boundary value problems for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation with constant coefficients. The general form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Anani Kwassi