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This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

The $\phi$-divergence-based moment method was recently introduced Abdelmalik et al. (2023) for the discretization of the radiative transfer equation. At the continuous level, this method is very close to the entropy-based MN methods and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Micheal R A Abdelmalik , Zhenning Cai , Teddy Pichard

This work presents neural network based minimal entropy closures for the moment system of the Boltzmann equation, that preserve the inherent structure of the system of partial differential equations, such as entropy dissipation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Steffen Schotthöfer , Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank , Cory D. Hauck

To close the moment model deduced from kinetic equations, the canonical approach is to provide an approximation to the flux function not able to be depicted by the moments in the reduced model. In this paper, we propose a brand new closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Ruo Li , Weiming Li , Lingchao Zheng

We present a data-driven approach to construct entropy-based closures for the moment system from kinetic equations. The proposed closure learns the entropy function by fitting the map between the moments and the entropy of the moment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 William A. Porteous , M. Paul Laiu , Cory D. Hauck

In this paper, we derive the quantum hydrodynamics models based on the moment closure of the Wigner equation. The moment expansion adopted is of the Grad type firstly proposed in \cite{Grad}. The Grad's moment method was originally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Ruo Li , Tiao Lu , Yanli Wang

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

The moments of spatial probabilistic systems are often given by an infinite hierarchy of coupled differential equations. Moment closure methods are used to approximate a subset of low order moments by terminating the hierarchy at some order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

As one of the main governing equations in kinetic theory, the Boltzmann equation is widely utilized in aerospace, microscopic flow, etc. Its high-resolution simulation is crucial in these related areas. However, due to the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Zhengyi Li , Bin Dong , Yanli Wang

In the present work, an approach to the moment closure problem on the basis of orthogonal polynomials derived from Gram matrices is proposed. Its properties are studied in the context of the moment closure problem arising in gas kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Eda Yilmaz , Georgii Oblapenko , Manuel Torrilhon

We make a brief historical review to the moment model reduction to the kinetic equations, particularly the Grad's moment method for Boltzmann equation. The focus is on the hyperbolicity of the reduced model, which is essential to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-26 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Ruo Li

The main challenge of large-scale numerical simulation of radiation transport is the high memory and computation time requirements of discretization methods for kinetic equations. In this work, we derive and investigate a neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Steffen Schotthöfer , M. Paul Laiu , Martin Frank , Cory D. Hauck

Moment methods are classical approaches that approximate the mesoscopic radiative transfer equation by a system of macroscopic moment equations. An expansion in the angular variables transforms the original equation into a system of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Martin Frank , Benjamin Seibold

We obtain a formal integral solution to the 3+1 D Boltzmann Equation in relaxation time approximation. The gradient series obtained from this integral solution contains exponentially decaying non-hydrodynamic terms. It is shown that this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Victor Roy

In this paper, explicit method of constructing approximations (the Triangle Entropy Method) is developed for nonequilibrium problems. This method enables one to treat any complicated nonlinear functionals that fit best the physics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

We investigate the impact of momentum-dependent relaxation time approximation in the Boltzmann equation within the Bjorken flow framework by analyzing the moments of the single-particle distribution function. The moment equations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

In this paper we propose a novel approach to construct macroscopic balance equations and constitutive equations describing various irreversible phenomena. It is based on the general principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and consists…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-27 Liu Hong , Zaibao Yang , Yi Zhu , Wen-An Yong

We consider the method-of-moments approach to solve the Boltzmann equation of rarefied gas dynamics, which results in the following moment-closure problem. Given a set of moments, find the underlying probability density function. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Neeraj Sarna

We use guiding principles from nonequilibrium thermodynamics to develop an admissible set of 13 moment equations for rarefied gas flows. The main benefits of our thermodynamic approach are an explicit entropy expression fulfilling an $H$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 Hans Christian Öttinger

Many physical systems are described by probability distributions that evolve in both time and space. Modeling these systems is often challenging to due large state space and analytically intractable or computationally expensive dynamics. To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness
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