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A basic question about regularity of Boltzmann solutions in the presence of physical boundary conditions has been open due to characteristic nature of the boundary as well as the non-local mixing of the collision operator. Consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Daniela Tonon , Ariane Trescases

We consider the Boltzmann equation with external fields in strictly convex domains with the specular reflection boundary condition. We construct classical $C^1$ solutions away from the grazing set under the assumption that the external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Yunbai Cao

Higher regularity estimate has been a challenging question for the Boltzmann equation in bounded domains. Indeed, it is well-known to have "the non-existence of a second order derivative at the boundary" in [15] even for symmetric convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Hongxu Chen , Chanwoo Kim

Consider the Boltzmann equation in a general non-convex domain with the diffuse boundary condition. We establish optimal BV estimates for such solutions. Our method consists of a new $W^{1,1}-$trace estimate for the diffuse boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Daniela Tonon , Ariane Trescases

Regularity of the Boltzmann equation, particularly in the presence of physical boundary conditions, heavily relies on the geometry of the boundaries. In the case of non-convex domains with specular reflection boundary conditions, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Gayoung An , Donghyun Lee

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental kinetic equation that describes the dynamics of dilute gas. In this paper we study the regularity of both dynamical and steady Boltzmann equation in strictly convex domain with the Cercignani-Lampis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Hongxu Chen

We discuss some recent development on the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in bounded domains with diffuse reflection boundary condition. In addition we present a new regularity result when the particles are surrounded by conductor boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim

We investigate the regularity issue for the diffuse reflection boundary problem to the stationary linearized Boltzmann equation for hard sphere potential, cutoff hard potential, or cutoff Maxwellian molecular gases in a strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 I-Kun Chen , Chun-Hsiung Hsia , Daisuke Kawagoe

We establish the global-wellposedness and stability of the Boltzmann equation with the specular reflection boundary condition in general smooth convex domains when an initial datum is close to the Maxwellian with or without a small external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

A basic question about the existence and stability of the Boltzmann equation in general non-convex domain with the specular reflection boundary condition has been widely open. In this paper, we consider cylindrical domains whose cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental equation in kinetic theory that describes the motion of rarefied gases. In this study, we examine the Boltzmann equation within a $C^1$ bounded domain, subject to a large external potential $\Phi(x)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

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

The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a classical equation governing the dynamics of charged particles with the electric force being self-imposed. We consider the system in a convex domain with the Cercignani-Lampis boundary condition.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Hongxu Chen , Chanwoo Kim , Qin Li

We study the Boltzmann equation near a global Maxwellian in the case of bounded domains. We consider the boundary conditions to be either specular reflections or Maxwellian diffusion. Starting from the reference work of Guo in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Marc Briant

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

Boundaries occur naturally in kinetic equations and boundary effects are crucial for dynamics of dilute gases governed by the Boltzmann equation. We develop a mathematical theory to study the time decay and continuity of Boltzmann solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Yan Guo

The relativistic Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been widely used in physics and engineering, for example, Tokamak devices in fusion reactors.In spite of its importance, there has, to the best of our knowledge, been no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Yong Wang , Changguo Xiao

We consider weak solutions of the inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation in a bounded domain with any of the usual physical boundary conditions: in-flow, bounce-back, specular-reflection and diffuse-reflection. When the mass, energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Zhimeng Ouyang , Luis Silvestre

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in a compact domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions. We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres of diameter $\epsilon$ in a box $\Lambda := [0, 1] \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Corentin Le Bihan

We consider the regularity of stationary solutions to the linearized Boltzmann equations in bounded $C^1$ convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$ for gases with cutoff hard potential and cutoff Maxwellian gases. We prove that the stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-04 I-Kun Chen
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