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In this article, we design and analyze a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) finite element approximation for a class of strongly nonlinear boundary value problems. We consider an HHO discretization for a suitable linearized problem and show its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Gouranga Mallik , Thirupathi Gudi

We review some recent developments of Grad's approach to solving the Boltzmann equation and creating reduced description. The method of invariant manifold is put forward as a unified principle to establish corrections to Grad's equations. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

Study of far-from-equilibrium thermalization dynamics in quantum materials, including the dynamics of different types of quasiparticles, is becoming increasingly crucial. However, the inherent complexity of either the full quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Indrajit Wadgaonkar , Rishabh Jain , Marco Battiato

A widely used electrostatics model in the biomolecular modeling community, the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, along with its finite element approximation, are analyzed in this paper. A regularized Poisson-Boltzmann equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

We present a detailed description of the essentially entropic lattice Boltzmann model. The entropic lattice Boltzmann model guarantees unconditional numerical stability by iteratively solving the nonlinear entropy evolution equation. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Mohammad Atif , Praveen Kumar Kolluru , Santosh Ansumali

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

This paper deals with explicit spectral gap estimates for the linearized Boltzmann operator with hard potentials (and hard spheres). We prove that it can be reduced to the Maxwellian case, for which explicit estimates are already known.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Céline Baranger , Clément Mouhot

We extend the $L^p$-theory of the Boltzmann collision operator by using classical techniques based in the Carleman representation and Fourier analysis, allied to new ideas that exploit the radial symmetry of this operator. We are then able…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Emanuel Carneiro , Ricardo J. Alonso

We consider a system of N particles interacting via a short-range smooth potential, in a intermediate regime between the weak-coupling and the low-density. We provide a rigorous derivation of the Linear Landau equation from this particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicolò Catapano

We consider an inverse problem for the nonlinear Boltzmann equation near the equilibrium. Our goal is to determine the collision kernel in the Boltzmann equation from the knowledge of the Albedo operator. Our approach relies on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Li Li , Zhimeng Ouyang

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann scheme that solves the quasi-static equations of linear elasticity in two dimensions. In contrast to previous works, our formulation solves for a single distribution function with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Oliver Boolakee , Martin Geier , Laura De Lorenzis

We apply the collision-based hybrid introduced in \cite{hauck} to the Boltzmann equation with the BGK operator and a hyperbolic scaling. An implicit treatment of the source term is used to handle stiffness associated with the BGK operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Minwoo Shin , Cory D. Hauck , Ryan G. McClarren

Nonlinear q-Bernstein operator of max-product kind was introduced and its approximation order was examined, and the order of approximation was found to be by Duman in. In this paper, we obtained a better order of approximation for this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Sezin Çit , Ogün Doğru

A general lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed for solving nonlinear partial differential equations with the form $\partial_t \phi+\sum_{k=1}^{m} \alpha_k \partial_x^k \Pi_k (\phi)=0$, where $\alpha_k$ are constant coefficients, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Baochang Shi , Hanzhong He , Zhaoli Guo

For the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard po- tentials and Grad's cutoff (e.g. hard spheres), we give quantitative estimates of exponential convergence to equilibrium, and we show that the rate of exponential decay is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

In this article, we study the continuous mild solutions to the Boltzmann equation in a bounded spatial domain, under either angular cutoff assumption or non-cutoff assumption. Without assuming convexity of the spatial domain, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Jhe-Kuan Su

We show that the widely used relaxation time approximation to the relativistic Boltzmann equation contains basic flaws, being incompatible with microscopic and macroscopic conservation laws. We propose a new approximation that fixes such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Gabriel S. Rocha , Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

In this paper, we propose a high order conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme (SL) for the ellipsoidal BGK model of the Boltzmann transport equation. To avoid the time step restriction induced by the convection term, we adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun