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We consider the neural sparse representation to solve Boltzmann equation with BGK and quadratic collision model, where a network-based ansatz that can approximate the distribution function with extremely high efficiency is proposed.…
The Boltzmann equation with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision operator is considered for the Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac equilibrium distribution functions. We show that the expansion of the microscopic velocity in terms of Hermite…
The subject of this work is a new stochastic Galerkin method for second-order elliptic partial differential equations with random diffusion coefficients. It combines operator compression in the stochastic variables with tree-based spline…
In this paper we present a fully deterministic method for the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation of rarefied gas dynamics in a bounded domain for multi-scale problems. Periodic, specular reflection and diffusive boundary…
We introduce an $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the linear Boltzmann transport problem. A key feature of this new method is that, while offering arbitrary order convergence rates, it may be implemented…
We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…
This study discusses a class of linear systems of fractional differential equations with non-constant coefficients, with a particular focus on problems exhibiting highly oscillatory and non-smooth behavior. We first establish the regularity…
We study uncertainty quantification for a Boltzmann-Poisson system that models electron transport in semiconductors and the physical collision mechanisms over the charges. We use the stochastic Galerkin method in order to handle the…
Koopman operators and transfer operators represent nonlinear dynamics in state space through its induced action on linear spaces of observables and measures, respectively. This framework enables the use of linear operator theory for…
The construction of discrete velocity models or numerical methods for the Boltzmann equation, may lead to the necessity of computing the collision operator as a sum over lattice points. The collision operator involves an integral over a…
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…
In this paper, we develop a Galerkin-type approximation, with quantitative error estimates, for weak solutions to the Cauchy problem for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in the domain $(0, T) \times D \times \mathbb{R}^d$, where $D$ is…
Partial differential equations (p.d.e) equipped of spatial derivatives of fractional order capture anomalous transport behaviors observed in diverse fields of Science. A number of numerical methods approximate their solutions in dimension…
In this paper, we consider the Boltzmann equation with respect to orthonormal vielbein fields in conservative form. This formalism allows the use of arbitrary coordinate systems to describe the space geometry, as well as of an adapted…
With applications in astroparticle physics in mind, we generalize a method for the solution of the nonlinear, space homogeneous Boltzmann equation with isotropic distribution function to arbitrary matrix elements. The method is based on the…
We develop and analyse a numerical method for the time-fractional nonlocal thermistor problem. By rigorous proofs, some error estimates in different contexts are derived, showing that the combination of the backward differentiation in time…
In this paper, we employ the lattice Boltzmann method to solve the Boltzmann equation with the Shakhov model for the collision integral in the context of the 3D planar Couette flow. The half-range Gauss-Hermite quadrature is used to account…
We propose a new macroscopic model derived from the classical nonlinear Boltzmann equation. A set of partial differential equations is obtained easily. The unknowns depend on the time and space coordinates, and are related to the…
We introduce numerical solvers for the steady-state Boltzmann equation based on the symmetric Gauss-Seidel (SGS) method. Due to the quadratic collision operator in the Boltzmann equation, the SGS method requires solving a nonlinear system…
In this paper we present a parallelization strategy on distributed memory systems for the Fast Kinetic Scheme --- a semi-Lagrangian scheme developed in [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] for solving kinetic equations. The…