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The kappa-distributed fully ionized plasma with collisional interaction is investigated. The Fokker-Planck equation with Rosenbluth potential is employed to describe such a physical system. The results show that the kappa distribution is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Ran Guo

With respect to earlier investigations, the theory of multi-component, concentric, copolar, axisymmetric, rigidly rotating polytropes is improved and extended, including subsystems with nonzero density on the boundary and subsystems with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-21 R. Caimmi

We study high-velocity tails of some homogeneous Boltzmann equations on $v \in \mathbb{R}_{v}^d$. First, we consider spatially homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation with noncutoff collision kernel, in the case of moderately soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Gayoung An , Donghyun Lee

This paper reviews results on the scalar Boltzmann equation for a single-component polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy. For the space homogeneous problem, $L^1$-theory is established, for solutions with initial strictly positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Colic

Inspired by so many possible applications of this class of problems, we seek solution for non-cooperative elliptic systems of two Schrodinger equations. General conditions are assumed under the potentials, which produces convenient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Liliane A. Maia , Mayra Soares , Ricardo Ruviaro

We investigate velocity statistics of homogeneous inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. Employing an approximate uniform collision rate, we obtain analytic results valid in arbitrary dimension. In the freely evolving case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

In this paper, we present an analytic non-iterative approach for recovering a planar isotropic elastic inclusion embedded in an unbounded medium from the elastic moment tensors (EMTs), which are coefficients for the multipole expansion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Daehee Cho , Mikyoung Lim

In this paper, we consider the isotropic relaxed micromorphic model in polar coordinates and use this representation to solve explicitly an elastostatic axisymmetric extension problem involving a linear system of ordinary differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Esmaeal Ghavanloo , Patrizio Neff

We develop a Monte Carlo wave function algorithm for the quantum linear Boltzmann equation, a Markovian master equation describing the quantum motion of a test particle interacting with the particles of an environmental background gas. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Marc Busse , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Klaus Hornberger

In this work, we generalize M. Kac's original many-particle binary stochastic model to derive a space homogeneous Boltzmann equation that includes a linear combination of higher-order collisional terms. First, we prove an abstract theorem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Esteban Cárdenas , Nataša Pavlović , William Warner

We introduce a class of exponential Runge-Kutta integration methods for kinetic equations. The methods are based on a decomposition of the collision operator into an equilibrium and a non equilibrium part and are exact for relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-08 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

Over the last decades, several types of collision models have been proposed to extend the validity domain of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), each of them being introduced in its own formalism. The present article proposes a formalism…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 C. Coreixas , B. Chopard , J. Latt

A multi-species Fokker-Planck model for simulating particle collisions in a plasma is presented. The model includes various parameters that must be tuned. Under reasonable assumptions on these parameters, the model satisfies appropriate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Evan Habbershaw , Cory D. Hauck , Jingwei Hu , Jeffrey R. Haack

We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with non-cutoff collision kernels. Such kernels contain non-integrable singularity in the deviation angle which arise in a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi

A consistent derivation of the equations of motion (EOMs) of test particles for solving the spin-dependent Boltzmann-Vlasov equation is presented. The resulting EOMs in phase space are similar to the canonical equations in Hamiltonian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 Yin Xia , Jun Xu , Bao-An Li , Wen-Qing Shen

We consider a modified Boltzmann equation which contains, together with the collision operator, an additional drift term that is characterized by a matrix A. Furthermore, we consider a Maxwell gas, where the collision kernel has an angular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Bernhard Kepka

The evaluation of a matrix exponential function is a classic problem of computational linear algebra. Many different methods have been employed for its numerical evaluation [Moler C and van Loan C 1978 SIAM Review 20 4], none of which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 D H Gebremedhin , C A Weatherford , X Zhang , A Wynn , G Tanaka

Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Jingyu Yang , Shingyu Leung , Jianliang Qian , Hao Liu

In this paper, a polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy is considered, allowing for frozen collisions, in which the kinetic energy of the colliding particle pair is conserved, and the internal energy of each particle remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Čolić