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In this work we consider the classical non-linear Boltzmann equation, where the unknown is the distribution function $f$, which depends on the time $t$, the vector $\mathbf{x}$ (the position of a molecule) and its velocity $\mathbf{\xi}$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Armando Majorana

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

We present a numerical model and a set of conservative algorithms for Non-Maxwellian plasma kinetics with inelastic collisions. These algorithms self-consistently solve for the time evolution of an isotropic electron energy distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 H. P. Le , J. -L. Cambier

We consider the rate of convergence of solutions of spatially inhomogenous Boltzmann equations, with hard sphere potentials, to some equilibriums, called Maxwellians. Maxwellians are spatially homogenous static Maxwell velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Zhou Gang

A deterministic method is proposed for solving the Boltzmann equation. The method employs a Galerkin discretization of the velocity space and adopts, as trial and test functions, the collocation basis functions based on weights and roots of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

In this paper, we develop a numerical multiscale method to solve the fractional Laplacian with a heterogeneous diffusion coefficient. When the coefficient is heterogeneous, this adds to the computational costs. Moreover, the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Donald L. Brown , Joscha Gedicke , Daniel Peterseim

We present the formulation of a conservative spectral scheme for Boltzmann collision operators with anisotropic scattering mechanisms to model grazing collision limit regimes approximating the solution to the Landau equation in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

We consider the neural sparse representation to solve Boltzmann equation with BGK and quadratic collision model, where a network-based ansatz that can approximate the distribution function with extremely high efficiency is proposed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Zhengyi Li , Yanli Wang , Hongsheng Liu , Zidong Wang , Bin Dong

This work is aimed to develop a new class of methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation. This technique allows to get high order of accuracy both in space and time, theoretically without CFL stability limitation. It's based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Pietro Santagati , Giovanni Russo

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

The present work provides a definitive answer to the problem of quantifying relaxation to equilibrium of the solution to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules. The beginning of the story dates back to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 Emanuele Dolera , Eugenio Regazzini

The paper considers the convergence to equilibrium for measure solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard potentials with angular cutoff. We prove the exponential sharp rate of strong convergence to equilibrium for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Lu Xuguang , Clément Mouhot

In two recent publications [Kov{\'a}cs, Larsson, and Mesforush, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 49(6), 2407-2429, 2011] and [Furihata, et al., SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 56(2), 708-731, 2018], strong convergence of the semi-discrete and fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

We present a new Lattice Boltzmann (LB) formulation to solve the Maxwell equations for electromagnetic (EM) waves propagating in a heterogeneous medium. By using a pseudo-vector discrete Boltzmann distribution, the scheme is shown to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Shravan M. Hanasoge , Sauro Succi , Steven A. Orszag

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

This is the first one of two papers on the global dynamics of the original Boltzmann equations without angular cutoff on the torus. We address the problem for the hard potentials and Maxwellian molecules in the present paper. The case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Ling-Bing He , Jin-Cheng Jiang

We consider nodal-based Lagrangian interpolations for the finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. The first approach introduced is a standard Galerkin method on Powell-Sabin meshes, which has recently been shown to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Daniele Boffi , Ramon Codina , Önder Türk

We consider Galerkin finite element methods for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We analyze the strong error of convergence for spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Raphael Kruse

In this paper we prove new constructive coercivity estimates and convergence to equilibrium for a spatially non-homogeneous system of Landau equations with soft potentials. We show that the nonlinear collision operator conserves each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Maria Gualdani , Nicola Zamponi

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