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The linearized Boltzmann equation is considered to describe small spatial perturbations of the homogeneous cooling state. The corresponding macroscopic balance equations for the density, temperature, and flow velocity are derived from it as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We study the general dynamics of the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field. We apply the Galerkin projection method to transform a system of partial differential equations into a set of ordinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. P. de Oliveira , I. Damião Soares

We design a deterministic particle method for the solution of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with uncertainty. The deterministic particle approximation is based on the reformulation of the Landau equation as a formal gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Rafael Bailo , José Antonio Carrillo , Andrea Medaglia , Mattia Zanella

Wave propagation problems for heterogeneous media are known to have many applications in physics and engineering. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in stochastic effects due to the uncertainty, which may arise from impurities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ching-Shan Chou , Yukun Li , Dongbin Xiu

We present and analyse a space-time discontinuous Galerkin method for wave propagation problems. The special feature of the scheme is that it is a Trefftz method, namely that trial and test functions are solution of the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Fritz Kretzschmar , Andrea Moiola , Ilaria Perugia , Sascha M. Schnepp

We devise a space-time tensor method for the low-rank approximation of linear parabolic evolution equations. The proposed method is a stable Galerkin method, uniformly in the discretization parameters, based on a Minimal Residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Thomas Boiveau , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern , Anthony Nouy

The semilinear stochastic wave equation on the sphere driven by multiplicative Gaussian noise is discretized by a stochastic trigonometric integrator in time and a spectral Galerkin approximation in space based on the spherical harmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 David Cohen , Stefano Di Giovacchino , Annika Lang

A semi-classical approach to the study of the evolution of anyonic excitations--elementary particles with fractional statistics, complementing bosons and fermions--is through the Boltzmann equation for anyons. This work reviews a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Niclas Bernhoff

We discuss the development, analysis, implementation, and numerical assessment of a spectral method for the numerical simulation of the three-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The method is based on a spectral expansion of the velocity…

We present and analyse a new conforming space-time Galerkin discretisation of a semi-linear wave equation, based on a variational formulation derived from De Giorgi's elliptic regularisation viewpoint of the wave equation in second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Lehel Banjai , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Brian Hennessy

A jump-diffusion process along with a particle scheme is devised as an accurate and efficient particle solution to the Boltzmann equation. The proposed process (hereafter Gamma-Boltzmann model) is devised to match the evolution of all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Fabian Mies , Mohsen Sadr , Manuel Torrilhon

We propose a meshless conservative Galerkin method for solving Hamiltonian wave equations. We first discretize the equation in space using radial basis functions in a Galerkin-type formulation. Differ from the traditional RBF Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhengjie Sun , Leevan Ling

Combining analytical and numerical methods, we study within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, a broad class of models relevant for the dynamics of dissipative fluids, including granular gases. We use the new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-23 E. Trizac , A. Barrat , M. H. Ernst

Numerical techniques for discretization of velocity space in continuum kinetic calculations are described. An efficient spectral collocation method is developed for the speed coordinate - the radius in velocity space - employing a novel set…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Matt Landreman , Darin R. Ernst

This paper studies two hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations for the velocity-density formulation of the compressible Stokes equations with respect to several desired structural properties, namely provable convergence, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Philip L. Lederer , Christian Merdon

The interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is applied to solve elliptic equations on either networks of segments or networks of planar surfaces, with arbitrary but fixed number of bifurcations. Stability is obtained by proving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Miroslav Kuchta , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

We present a discretization-free scalable framework for solving a large class of mass-conserving partial differential equations (PDEs), including the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation and the Wasserstein gradient flow. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Lingxiao Li , Samuel Hurault , Justin Solomon

This paper presents a new numerical method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations governing the flow of an ideal isentropic gas. To approximate the continuity equation, the method utilizes a discontinuous Galerkin discretization on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Trygve K. Karper

This article proposes a new statistical numerical method to address gas kinetics problems obeying the Boltzmann equation. This method is inspired from some Monte-Carlo algorithms used in linear transport physics, where virtual particles are…

We investigate numerical behaviour of a convection diffusion equation with random coefficients by approximating statistical moments of the solution. Stochastic Galerkin approach, turning the original stochastic problem to a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Pelin Çiloğlu , Hamdullah Yücel