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We present a new method in order to get variable slip coefficient in binary lattice Boltzmann models to simulate gaseous flows. Boundary layer theory is presented. We study both the single- and multi-fluid BGK-type models as well. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lajos Szalmás

On contrary to the customary thought, the well-known ``lemma'' that the distribution function of a collisionless Boltzmann gas keeps invariant along a molecule's path represents not the strength but the weakness of the standard theory. One…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

The Lagrangian description of fluid flow in relativistic cosmology is extended to the case of flow accelerated by pressure. In the description, the entropy and the vorticity are obtained exactly for the barotropic equation of state. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hideki Asada

We argue that one can model deviations from the ensemble average in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics by promoting the Boltzmann equation to an equation in terms of {\em functionals} , representing possible candidates for phase space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-13 Giorgio Torrieri

Boltzmann Generators have emerged as a promising machine learning tool for generating samples from equilibrium distributions of molecular systems using Normalizing Flows and importance weighting. Recently, Flow Matching has helped speed up…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Lorenz Vaitl , Leon Klein

The Drude-Lorentz model for the motion of electrons in a solid is a classical model in statistical mechanics, where electrons are represented as point particles bouncing on a fixed system of obstacles (the atoms in the solid). Under some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 François Golse

We investigate velocity statistics of homogeneous inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. Employing an approximate uniform collision rate, we obtain analytic results valid in arbitrary dimension. In the freely evolving case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We consider a gradient flow related to the mean field type equation. First, we show that this flow exists for all time. Next, we prove a compactness result for this flow allowing us to get, under suitable hypothesis on its energy, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Jean-Baptiste Castéras

The departure of a granular gas in the instable region of parameters from the initial homogeneous cooling state is studied. Results from Molecular Dynamics and from Direct Monte Carlo simulation of the Boltzmann equation are compared. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We study the evolution of a quantum particle interacting with a random potential in the low density limit (Boltzmann-Grad). The phase space density of the quantum evolution defined through the Husimi function converges weakly to a linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Eng , Laszlo Erdos

Finding latent structures in data is drawing increasing attention in diverse fields such as image and signal processing, fluid dynamics, and machine learning. In this work we examine the problem of finding the main modes of gradient flows.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Ido Cohen , Omri Azencot , Pavel Lifshitz , Guy Gilboa

Starting from Boltzmann equation with relaxation time approximation for the collision term and using Chapman-Enskog like expansion for distribution function close to equilibrium, we derive hydrodynamic evolution equations for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-22 Amaresh Jaiswal

We prove the equivalence between the notion of Wasserstein gradient flow for a one-dimensional nonlocal transport PDE with attractive/repulsive Newtonian potential on one side, and the notion of entropy solution of a Burgers-type scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Giovanni A. Bonaschi , José A. Carrillo , Marco Di Francesco , Mark A. Peletier

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to a thorough analysis of the class of gradient flows in a metric space $(X,\mathsf{d})$ that can be characterized by Evolution Variational Inequalities. We present new results concerning the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Matteo Muratori , Giuseppe Savaré

Weak solutions to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation with increasing energy have been constructed by Lu and Wennberg. We consider an underlying microscopic stochastic model with binary collision (Kac's model) and show that these solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini , Emanuele Caglioti

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of kinetic models for traffic flow described by a Boltzmann-type approach and based on a continuous space of microscopic velocities. In our models, the particular structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

This work develops a quantitative homogenization theory for random suspensions of rigid particles in a steady Stokes flow, and completes recent qualitative results. More precisely, we establish a large-scale regularity theory for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Mitia Duerinckx , Antoine Gloria

We prove quantitative estimates on flows of ordinary differential equations with vector field with gradient given by a singular integral of an $L^1$ function. Such estimates allow to prove existence, uniqueness, quantitative stability and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-28 François Bouchut , Gianluca Crippa

The entropic lattice Boltzmann framework proposed the construction of the discrete equilibrium by taking into consideration minimization of a discrete entropy functional. The effect of this form of the discrete equilibrium on properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-16 S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin