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The development of accurate and fast algorithms for the Boltzmann collision integral and their analysis represent a challenging problem in scientific computing and numerical analysis. Recently, several works were devoted to the derivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Francis Filbet , Clément Mouhot

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

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. This approach is a two-step process that acts on the weak form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-06 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

We propose a new spectral Lagrangian based deterministic solver for the non-linear Boltzmann Transport Equation for Variable Hard Potential (VHP) collision kernels with conservative or non-conservative binary interactions. The method is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Irene M. Gamba , Sri Harsha Tharkabhushanam

An implicit high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is developed to find steady-state solution of rarefied gas flow described by the Boltzmann equation with full collision operator. In the physical space, velocity distribution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

We propose an adaptive Hermite spectral method for the three-dimensional velocity space of the Boltzmann equation guided by a newly developed frequency indicator. For the homogeneous problem, the indicator is defined by the contribution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Sihong Shao , Yanli Wang , Jie Wu

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method to compute linearized collision operators of the Boltzmann equation for variable hard-sphere gases. While the state-of-the-art method provides a computational cost O(MN^4 log N), with N being the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We present a numerical algorithm for evaluating the Boltzmann collision operator with $O(N^2)$ operations based on high order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in the velocity variable. To formulate the approach, Galerkin projection of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Alexander Alekseenko , Jeffrey Limbacher

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

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

The quantitative information on the spectral gaps for the linearized Boltzmann operator is of primary importance on justifying the Boltzmann model and study of relaxation to equilibrium. This work, for the first time, provides numerical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Chenglong Zhang , Irene M. Gamba

A novel hybrid algorithm is presented for the Boltzmann-BGK equation, in which a low-rank decomposition is applied solely in the velocity subspace, while a full-rank representation is maintained in the physical (position) space. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Andres Galindo-Olarte , Joseph Nakao , Mirjeta Pasha , Jing-Mei Qiu , William Taitano

The Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the phase-space probability distribution of classical particles under binary collisions. Approximations to it underlie the basis for several scholarly fields, including aerodynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 George J. Wilkie , Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the Boltzmann collision operator. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants leads to the wrong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

We propose an entropic Fourier method for the numerical discretization of the Boltzmann collision operator. The method, which is obtained by modifying a Fourier Galerkin method to match the form of the discrete velocity method, can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space homogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. This approach is a two-step process that acts on the weak form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

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

In this paper we propose a novel numerical approach for the Boltzmann equation with uncertainties. The method combines the efficiency of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) schemes in the phase space together with the accuracy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

In this paper, we study the generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) based stochastic Galerkin method for the linear semiconductor Boltzmann equation under diffusive scaling and with random inputs from an anisotropic collision kernel and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Liu Liu

This work addresses a central challenge in the numerical analysis of the cutoff spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation: the development of rigorously justified, accurate numerical schemes. We present (i) a novel Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yanzhi Gui , Ling-Bing He , Liu Liu