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We develop error estimates for the semi-discrete conservative spectral method for the approximation of the elastic and inelastic space homogeneous Boltzmann equation introduced by the authors in \cite{GT09}. In addition we study the long…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba , Sri Harsha Tharkabhushanam

Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexandre Mouton , Thomas Rey

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with non-cutoff collision kernels. Such kernels contain non-integrable singularity in the deviation angle which arise in a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method for the multi-species Boltzmann collision operator. The method retains the riveting properties of the single-species fast spectral method (Gamba et al. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 39 pp. B658--B674…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Shashank Jaiswal , Alina A. Alexeenko , Jingwei Hu

One of the biggest challenges for simulating the Boltzmann equation is the evaluation of fivefold collision integral. Given the recent successes of deep learning and the availability of efficient tools, it is an obvious idea to try to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

We develop a spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation using Burnett polynomials in the basis functions. Using the sparsity of the coefficients in the expansion of the collision term, the computational cost is reduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Yanli Wang

We present the formulation of a conservative spectral scheme for Boltzmann collision operators with anisotropic scattering mechanisms to model grazing collision limit regimes approximating the solution to the Landau equation in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation with uncertainties and prove that the spectral convergence of the semi-discretized numerical system holds in a combined velocity and random space, where the Fourier-spectral method is applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Liu Liu , Kunlun Qi

In this note, we present a general way to construct spectral methods for the collision operator of the Boltzmann equation which preserves exactly the Maxwellian steady-state of the system. We show that the resulting method is able to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Francis Filbet , Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

Numerical approximation of the Boltzmann equation is a challenging problem due to its high-dimensional, nonlocal, and nonlinear collision integral. Over the past decade, the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method has become a popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi , Tong Yang

An original spectral study of the compressible hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) on standard lattice is proposed. In this framework, the mass and momentum equations are addressed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), while finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Florian Renard , Gauthier Wissocq , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

This paper presents a novel Fourier spectral method that utilizes optimization techniques to ensure the positivity and conservation of moments in the space of trigonometric polynomials. We rigorously analyze the accuracy of the new method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Zhenning Cai , Bo Lin , Meixia Lin

This work explores the capability of simulating complex fluid flows by directly solving the Boltzmann equation. Due to the high-dimensionality of the governing equation, the substantial computational cost of solving the Boltzmann equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli

We introduce a numerical scheme for the full multi-species Boltzmann equation based on Hermite spectral method. With the proper choice of expansion centers for different species, a practical algorithm is derived to evaluate the complicated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang , Haoxuan Xu

This paper presents a fast algorithm to solve a spectral estimation problem for two-dimensional random fields. The latter is formulated as a convex optimization problem with the Itakura-Saito pseudodistance as the objective function subject…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Bin Zhu , Jiahao Liu

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 deterministic method is proposed for solving the Boltzmann equation. The method employs a Galerkin discretization of the velocity space and adopts, as trial and test functions, the collocation basis functions based on weights and roots of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

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