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In numerical simulations of many charged systems at the micro/nano scale, a common theme is the repeated solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. This task proves challenging, if not entirely infeasible, largely due to the nonlinearity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Lijie Ji , Yanlai Chen , Zhenli Xu

In this paper we study the numerical passage from the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without cut-off to the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation in the so-called grazing collision limit. To this aim we derive a Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Lorenzo Pareschi , Giuseppe Toscani , Cédric Villani

We derive approximate iterative analytical solutions of the non-extensive Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation. The approximate solutions almost overlap with the exact solution for a considerably wide range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Trambak Bhattacharyya

With a sufficiently fine discretisation, the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) mimics a second order Crank-Nicolson scheme for certain types of balance laws (Farag et al. [2021]). This allows the explicit, highly parallelisable LBM to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Erik Faust , Alexander Schlüter , Henning Müller , Ralf Müller

A systematic derivation of Boltzmann equation is presented in the framework of closed-time-path formalism. Introducing a new type of probe, the expectation value of number operator is calculated as a functional of source. Then solving for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun Koide

We prove the existence and exponential decay of global in time strong solutions to the Boltzmann equation without any angular cut-off, i.e., for long-range interactions. We consider perturbations of the Maxwellian equilibrium states and…

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

Collective orders and photo-induced phase transitions in quantum matter can evolve on timescales which are orders of magnitude slower than the femtosecond processes related to electronic motion in the solid. Quantum Boltzmann equations can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Antonio Picano , Jiajun Li , Martin Eckstein

The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

The quantum version of the Boltzmann transport equation (Wigner-Boltzmann equation) is a quite useful tool to investigate the effects of energy dissipation in quantum systems. Numerical approaches uses to be employed in order to stablish a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 A. R. Fernandes Nt. , L. F. Santos

We formulate a well-posedness and approximation theory for a class of generalised saddle point problems. In this way we develop an approach to a class of fourth order elliptic partial differential equations using the idea of splitting into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Charles M. Elliott , Hans Fritz , Graham Hobbs

In this paper, we obtain the weak Harnack inequality and H\"older estimates for a large class of kinetic integro-differential equations. We prove that the Boltzmann equation without cut-off can be written in this form and satisfies our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

We give quantitative estimates on the asymptotics of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator and its associated equation from angular cutoff to non cutoff. On one hand, the results disclose the link between the hyperbolic property…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Ling-Bing He , Yu-Long Zhou

The Boltzmann equation has been a driving force behind significant mathematical research over the years. Its challenging theoretical complexity, combined with a wide variety of current scientific and technological problems that require…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Liliane Basso Barichello

The well-known Rutherford differential cross section, denoted by $ d\Omega/d\sigma$, corresponds to a two body interaction with Coulomb potential. It leads to the logarithmically divergence of the momentum transfer (or the transport cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ling-Bing He , Yu-Long Zhou

In this study, a phase-field lattice Boltzmann model based on the Allen-Cahn equation with a filtered collision operator and high-order corrections in the equilibrium distribution functions is presented. Here we show that in addition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hiroshi Otomo , Raoyang Zhang , Hudong Chen

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

This article describes methods for the deterministic simulation of the collisional Boltzmann equation. It presumes that the transport and collision parts of the equation are to be simulated separately in the time domain. Time stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Akil Narayan , Andreas Klöckner

We prove an inequality on the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost between two solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff, from which we deduce some uniqueness results. In particular, we obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Fournier , Hélène Guérin

The emphasis of this paper is to investigate the high-order approximation of a class of SPDEs with cubic nonlinearity driven by multiplicative noise with the help of the amplitude equations. The highlight of our work is that we improve the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Shiduo Qu , Hongjun Gao

In this note, we present a general way to construct spectral methods for the collision operator of the Boltzmann equation which preserves exactly the Maxwellian steady-state of the system. We show that the resulting method is able to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Francis Filbet , Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey