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Despite its conceptual and practical importance, the rigorous derivation of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system from the Boltzmann theory has been {an} outstanding {open problem} for general domains in 3D. We settle this…
In this article we consider viscous flow in the exterior of an obstacle satisfying the standard no-slip boundary condition at the surface of the obstacle. We seek conditions under which solutions of the Navier-Stokes system in the exterior…
In this paper, we prove that a local weak solution to the $d$-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations ($d \geq 2$) can be constructed by taking the hydrodynamic limit of a velocity-discretized Boltzmann equation with a simplified…
We analyze the steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a three-dimensional channel containing an obstacle through the Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions: the inflow is given by a fairly general datum and the…
We consider the hydrodynamic limit of a stationary Boltzmann equation in a unit plate with in-flow boundary. We prove the solution can be approximated in $L^{\infty}$ by the sum of interior solution which satisfies steady incompressible…
The exterior domain problem is essential in fluid and kinetic equations. In this paper, we establish the validity of the diffusive expansion for the Boltzmann equations to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system up to the critical time in an…
Adding some nontrivial terms composed from a microstructure, we prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, whose enstrophy is bounded for all the time, to an incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for arbitrary initial…
In this paper, we provide the first rigorous derivation of hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres with small inelasticity. The hydrodynamic system that we obtain is an incompressible…
Triggered by the fact that, in the hydrodynamic limit, several different kinetic equations of physical interest all lead to the same Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, we develop in the paper an abstract framework which allows to explain this…
We propose a kinetic framework for single-component non-ideal isothermal flows. Starting from a kinetic model for a non-ideal fluid, we show that under conventional scaling the Navier-Stokes equations with a non-ideal equation of state are…
We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in $\R^n$ with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat…
We study the two-dimensional stationary Navier-Stokes equations describing the flows around a rotating obstacle. The unique existence of solutions and their asymptotic behavior at spatial infinity are established when the rotation speed of…
This work deals with the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation for all type of potentials, in both the torus $\mathbf{T}^3$ and in the whole space $\mathbf{R}^3$, under the incompressible Navier-Stokes scaling. We first establish the well-posedness…
We present a new kinetic model and its lattice Boltzmann realization for the simulation of compressible, non-ideal fluid flows. The method employs first-neighbour lattices and introduces a consistent set of correction terms constructed via…
In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of viscous incompressible 2D flow in the exterior of a small material obstacle. We fix the initial vorticity $\omega_0$ and the circulation $\gamma$ of the initial flow around the obstacle. We…
Consider the Navier-Stokes flow in 3-dimensional exterior domains, where a rigid body is translating with prescribed translational velocity $-h(t)u_\infty$ with constant vector $u_\infty\in \mathbb R^3\setminus\{0\}$. Finn raised the…
The study of flows over an obstacle is one of the fundamental problems in fluids. In this paper we establish the global validity of the diffusive limit for the Boltzmann equations to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in an exterior domain.…
From the steady Stokes and Navier-Stokes models, a penalization method has been considered by several authors for approximating those fluid equations around obstacles. In this work, we present a justification for using fictitious domains to…
The paper discusses the similarities and the differences in the mathematical theories of the steady Boltzmann and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed in a bounded domain. First we discuss two different scaling limits in which…
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