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We derive the expressions of the local Maxwellians that solve the Boltzmann equation in the interior of an open domain. We determine which of these local Maxwellians satisfy the Boltzmann equation in a regular domain with boundary, without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Théophile Dolmaire

In this article we study the well-posedness of the Boltzmann equation near its hydrodynamic limit on a bounded domain. We consider two types of domains, namely $C^2$ domains with Maxwell boundary conditions where the accommodation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Richard Medina Rodriguez

Motivated by the numerical investigation by Aoki et al. [1], we study a rarefied gas flow between two parallel infinite plates of the same temperature governed by the Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundaries, where one plate is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Renjun Duan , Zhu Zhang

This paper is concerned with the boundary-value problem on the Boltzmann equation in bounded domains with diffuse-reflection boundary where the boundary temperature is time-periodic. We establish the existence of time-periodic solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Renjun Duan , Yong Wang , Zhu Zhang

The global well-posedness of the Boltzmann equation with initial data of large amplitude has remained a long-standing open problem. In this paper, by developing a new $L^\infty_xL^1_{v}\cap L^\infty_{x,v}$ approach, we prove the global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Renjun Duan , Feimin Huang , Yong Wang , Tong Yang

In many numerical implementations of the Cauchy formulation of Einstein's field equations one encounters artificial boundaries which raises the issue of specifying boundary conditions. Such conditions have to be chosen carefully. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-06 Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach

Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Bela Szilagyi , Jeffrey Winicour

In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation in a close to the hydrodynamic limit regime, set in bounded spatial domains with non-isothermal Maxwell boundary conditions. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 R Medina

When dilute charged particles are confined in a bounded domain, boundary effects are crucial in the global dynamics. We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

We prove the immediate appearance of an exponential lower bound, uniform in time and space, for continuous mild solutions to the full Boltzmann equation in a $C^2$ convex bounded domain with the physical Maxwellian diffusion boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant

We study the dynamics defined by the Boltzmann equation set in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^D$ in the vicinity of global Maxwellians with finite mass. A global Maxwellian is a special solution of the Boltzmann equation for which the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Claude Bardos , Irene M. Gamba , François Golse , C. David Levermore

We consider the Boltzmann equation in convex domain with non-isothermal boundary of diffuse reflection. For both unsteady/steady problems, we construct solutions belong to $W^{1,p}_x$ for any $p<3$. We prove that the unsteady solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Hongxu Chen , Chanwoo Kim

For the spatially inhomogeneous, non-cutoff Boltzmann equation posed in the whole space $\mathbb R^3_x$, we establish pointwise lower bounds that appear instantaneously even if the initial data contains vacuum regions. Our lower bounds…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

The formation and propagation of singularities for Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been an important question in numerical studies as well as in theoretical studies. Consider the nonlinear Boltzmann solution near Maxwellians under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Chanwoo Kim

We start with some global Maxwellian function $M$, which is a stationary solution (with the constant total density $\rho$) of the Boltzmann equation, and we denote the number of the corresponding space variables by $n$. The notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Lev Sakhnovich

This article considers the spatially inhomogeneous, non-cutoff Boltzmann equation. We construct a large-data classical solution given bounded, measurable initial data with uniform polynomial decay of mild order in the velocity variable. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

In this paper, we consider the cutoff Boltzmann equation near Maxwellian, we proved the global existence and uniqueness for the cutoff Boltzmann equation in polynomial weighted space for all $\gamma \in (-3, 1]$. We also proved initially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Chuqi Cao

In this paper, we study the initial value problem of a Boltzmann type equation with a nonlinear degenerate damping. We prove the existence of global weak solutions with large initial data, in three dimensional space. We rely on a variant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Cheng Yu

Boundary effects are central to the dynamics of the dilute particles governed by Boltzmann equation. In this paper, we study both the diffuse reflection and the specular reflection boundary value problems for Boltzmann equation with soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Shuangqian Liu , Xiongfeng Yang

We consider a class of nonlinear Boltzmann equations describing return to thermal equilibrium in a gas of colliding particles suspended in a thermal medium. We study solutions in the space $L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3}\times \mathbb{T}^3).$ Special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Juerg Froehlich , Zhou Gang