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This paper is concerned with the existence, shape and dynamical stability of infinite-energy equilibria for a general class of spatially homogeneous kinetic equations in space dimensions $d \geq 3$. Our results cover in particular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Daniel Matthes

Selected aspects of the Maxwell-Boltzmann for molecular speeds are discussed, with special attention to physical effects of the low speed and high speed limits. We use simple approaches to study several topics which could be included in…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-10-28 Yi-Chi Yvette Wu , L. H. Ford

In this paper it is shown that unique solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation exist for all time and decay with any polynomial rate towards their steady state relativistic Maxwellian provided that the initial data starts out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Robert M. Strain

We apply the method of invariant manifolds to derive equations of generalized hydrodynamics from the linearized Boltzmann equation and determine exact transport coefficients, obeying Green-Kubo formulas. Numerical calculations are performed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Colangeli , M. Kroger , H. C. Ottinger

In this paper, we study the global existence and uniqueness, Gaussian lower bound, and moment estimates in the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Fermi-Dirac particles for hard potential ($0\leq \gamma\leq 2$) with angular cutoff…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Gayoung An , Sungbin Park

The paper considers the convergence to equilibrium for measure solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff. We prove the exponential sharp rate of strong convergence to equilibrium for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Lu Xuguang , Clément Mouhot

We introduce a class of Boltzmann equations on the real line, which constitute extensions of the classical Kac caricature. The collisional gain operators are defined by smoothing transformations with quite general properties. By…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-16 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Daniel Matthes

The Boltzmann equation, a fundamental equation in kinetic theory, serves as a bridge between microscopic particle dynamics and macroscopic continuum mechanics. However, deriving closed macroscopic moment systems from the Boltzmann equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Juntao Huang , Liu Liu , Kunlun Qi , Jiayu Wan

We propose a novel approach in the study of transport phenomena in dense systems or systems with long range interactions where multiple particle interactions must be taken into consideration. Within Boltzmann's kinetic formalism, we study…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Travis J. Sherman , Johann Rafelski

This paper studies a space-inhomogeneous Boltzmann-Nordheim equation with pseudo-Maxwellian forces. Strong solutions are obtained for the Cauchy problem in a setting with large bounded L1 initial data. The main results are existence,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Leif Arkeryd , Anne Nouri

It is well known that the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations can be deduced via the Chapman-Enskog expansion from the Boltzmann equation as the first-order correction to the Euler equations with viscosity and heat-conductivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

The problem of ballistically controlled annihilation is revisited for general initial velocity distributions and arbitrary dimension. An analytical derivation of the hierarchy equations obeyed by the reduced distributions is given, and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslaw Piasecki , Emmanuel Trizac , Michel Droz

In recent years it has been shown for hard sphere gas that, by retaining the correlation information, dynamical fluctuation and large deviation of empirical measure around Boltzmann equation could be proved, in addition to the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Chenjiayue Qi

A Multi-scale Boltzmann Equation (MBE) is found from the gas-kinetic theory and the direct modeling philosophy as a master equation for complex physical systems of neutral gases across all flow regimes, which locates between the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Sha Liu , Junzhe Cao , Sirui Yang , Chengwen Zhong

Within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, we present a new analytic method, without the intrinsic limitations of existing methods, for obtaining asymptotic solutions. This method permits extension of existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Ernst , E. Trizac , A. Barrat

The differential equation for Boltzmann's function is replaced by the corresponding discrete finite difference equation. The difference equation is, then, symmetrized so that the equation remains invariant when step d is replaced by -d. The…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mushfiq Ahmad , Muhammad O. G. Talukder

We study the convergence from the multi-species Boltzmann equations to the non-isothermal Maxwell-Stefan system. The global-in-time well-posedness of the Maxwell-Stefan system is first established. The solution is utilized as the fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Xinqiu Chen , Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo

This is a continuation of our series of works for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation. We study qualitative properties of classical solutions, precisely, the full regularization in all variables, uniqueness, non-negativity and convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

The linear Boltzmann equation can be solved with separation of variables in one dimension, i.e., in three-dimensional space with planar symmetry. In this method, solutions are given by superpositions of eigenmodes which are sometimes called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Manabu Machida

We consider a finite number of particles characterised by their positions and velocities. At random times a randomly chosen particle, the follower, adopts the velocity of another particle, the leader. The follower chooses its leader…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Adrien Blanchet , Pierre Degond