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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…

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We couple the L1 discretization for Caputo derivative in time with spectral Galerkin method in space to devise a scheme that solves quasilinear subdiffusion equations. Both the diffusivity and the source are allowed to be nonlinear…

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A kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is proposed and explored as a practical means to investigate the properties of a dilute granular gas. It is shown that all spatially homogeneous initial distributions approach a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 James W. Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , Lorena Zogaib

A family of weak Galerkin finite element discretization is developed for solving the coupled Darcy-Stokes equation. The equation in consideration admits the Beaver-Joseph-Saffman condition on the interface. By using the weak Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Wenbin Chen , Fang Wang , Yanqiu Wang

We introduce a numerical solver for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation using the Burnett spectral method. The modelling and discretization of the collision operator are based on the previous work [Z. Cai, Y. Fan, and Y. Wang,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Zhicheng Hu , Zhenning Cai

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space homogeneous 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 2012-11-05 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

We develop a general polynomial chaos (gPC) based stochastic Galerkin (SG) for hyperbolic equations with random and singular coefficients. Due to the singu- lar nature of the solution, the standard gPC-SG methods may suffer from a poor or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Shi Jin , Zheng Ma

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

In this paper, convergence results on the solutions of a time and space discrete model approximation of the Boltzmann equation for a gas of Maxwellian particles in a bounded domain, obtained by Babovsky and Illner [1989], are extended to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-30 C. P. Grünfeld , D. Marinescu

In Becker and Jentzen (2019) and Becker et al. (2017), an explicit temporal semi-discretization scheme and a space-time full-discretization scheme were, respectively, introduced and analyzed for the additive noise-driven stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Xiaojie Wang

Deterministic solutions of the Boltzmann equation represent a real challenge due to the enormous computational effort which is required to produce such simulations and often stochastic methods such as Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Walter Boscheri , Giacomo Dimarco

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

When the molecules of a gaseous system are far apart, say in microscale gas flows where the surface to volume ratio is high and hence the surface forces dominant, the molecule-surface interactions lead to the formation of a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Shashank Jaiswal , Jingwei Hu , Julien K. Brillon , Alina A. Alexeenko

A challenging problem in solving the Boltzmann equation numerically is that the velocity space is approximated by a finite region. Therefore, most methods are based on a truncation technique and the computational cost is then very high if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Minh-Binh Tran

We introduce an $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the linear Boltzmann transport problem. A key feature of this new method is that, while offering arbitrary order convergence rates, it may be implemented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Paul Houston , Matthew E. Hubbard , Thomas J. Radley , Oliver J. Sutton , Richard S. J. Widdowson

A lattice Boltzmann method is proposed based on the expansion of the equilibrium distribution function in powers of a new set of generalized orthonormal polynomials which are here presented. The new polynomials are orthonormal under the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Anderson Ilha , Mauro M. Doria

We determine properties of the lattice Boltzmann method for semiclassical fluids, which is based on the Boltzmann equation and the equilibrium distribution function is given either by the Bose-Einstein or the Fermi-Dirac ones. New…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Mauro M. Doria

We present and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of a class of second-order linear mixed-type partial differential equations, i.e. equations that change their nature from elliptic to hyperbolic through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Chiara Perinati , Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard , Andrea Moiola , Paul Stocker

We present a novel Galerkin method for solving partial differential equations on the sphere. The problem is discretized by a highly localized basis which is easily constructed. The stiffness matrix entries are computed by a recently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 F. J. Narcowich , Stephen T. Rowe , Joseph D. Ward

This paper develops a class of robust weak Galerkin methods for the stationary incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. The methods adopt piecewise polynomials of degrees $m\ (m\geq1)$ and $m-1$ respectively for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 X. J. Wang , X. P. Xie