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The Boltzmann equation without Grad's angular cutoff assumption is believed to have regularizing effect on the solution because of the non-integrable angular singularity of the cross-section. However, even though so far this has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Y. Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

This note is devoted to a simple method for proving hypocoercivity of the solutions of a kinetic equation involving a linear time relaxation operator, i.e. the construction of an adapted Lyapunov functional satisfying a Gronwall-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Jean Dolbeault , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

The aim of the work is to provide a stable method to get sharp bounds for Boltzmann and Landau operators in weighted Sobolev spaces and in anisotropic spaces. All the sharp bounds are given for the original Boltzmann and Landau operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Ling-Bing He

This paper establishes the global well-posedness of the multi-species Boltzmann equation with large-amplitude initial data in the periodic domain $\mathbb{T}^3$. In contrast to the single-species case, the multi-species mixture model lacks…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Gyounghun Ko , Myeong-Su Lee , Sung-Jun Son

This work proves the global stability of the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse-power intermolecular potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$, for initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

This article provides sharp constructive upper and lower bound estimates for the non-linear Boltzmann collision operator with the full range of physical non cut-off collision kernels ($\gamma > -n$ and $s\in (0,1)$) in the trilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

We develop an effective theory for biased tracers formulated at the level of the Boltzmann equation, providing a unified description of density and velocity bias. We introduce a general effective collision term in the tracer Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Tomo Takahashi , Sora Yamashita

In this work we prove global stability for the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse power intermolecular potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$. This completes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

This paper studies convergence to equilibrium for the spatially inhomogeneous linear relaxation Boltzmann equation in Boltzmann entropy and related entropy functionals the $p$-entropies. Villani proved in \cite{V09} entropic hypocoercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Josephine Evans

With the existence and uniqueness of a vector value solution for the full non-linear homogeneous Boltzmann system of equations describing multi-component monatomic gas mixtures for binary interactions proved [8], we present in this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Erica de la Canal , Irene M. Gamba , Milana Pavić-Čolić

Motivated by the open problem of large-data global existence for the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation, we introduce a model equation that in some sense disregards the anisotropy of the Boltzmann collision kernel. We refer to this model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Stanley Snelson

The Boltzmann equation without an angular cutoff is considered when the initial data is a small perturbation of a global Maxwellian with an algebraic decay in the velocity variable. A well-posedness theory in the perturbative framework is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Ricardo Alonso , Yoshinori Morimoto , Weiran Sun , Tong Yang

We apply the spectral-Lagrangian method of Gamba and Tharkabhushanam for solving the homogeneous Boltzmann equation to compute the low probability tails of the velocity distribution function, $f$, of a particle species. This method is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-06 John Zweck , Yanping Chen , Matthew J. Goeckner , Yannan Shen

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the Boltzmann collision operator. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants leads to the wrong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

It is well-known that the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method has been a popular approach for the numerical approximation of the deterministic Boltzmann equation with spectral accuracy rigorously proved. In this paper, we will show that such a…

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

In [C. Mouhot and L. Pareschi, "Fast algorithms for computing the Boltzmann collision operator," Math. Comp., to appear; C. Mouhot and L. Pareschi, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 339 (2004), pp. 71-76], fast deterministic algorithms based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Francis Filbet , Clément Mouhot , Lorenzo Pareschi

We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We consider a semiclassical linear Boltzmann model with a non local collision operator. We provide sharp spectral asymptotics for the small spectrum in the low temperature regime from which we deduce the rate of return to equilibrium as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Thomas Normand

We consider general linear kinetic equations combining transport and a linear collision on the kinetic variable with a spatial weight that can vanish on part of the domain. The considered transport operators include external potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Helge Dietert , Frédéric Hérau , Harsha Hutridurga , Clément Mouhot

We prove global existence of smooth solutions near Maxwellians for the non-cutoff Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in the weakly collisional regime. To address the weak dissipation of the non-cutoff linearized Boltzmann operator, we develop…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuanjie Lei , Shuangqian Liu , Qinghua Xiao , Huijiang Zhao