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In this paper we study the kinetic theory of many-particle astrophysical systems and we present a consistent version of the collisionless Boltzmann equation in the 1PN approximation. We argue that the equation presented by Rezania and…

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A linear Boltzmann equation with nonautonomous collision operator is rigorously derived in the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the deterministic dynamics of a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Karsten Matthies , George Stone

We study Lorentz processes in two different settings. Both cases are characterized by infinite expectation of the free-flight times, contrary to what happens in the classical Gallavotti-Spohn models. Under a suitable Boltzmann-Grad type…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Facciaroni , Costantino Ricciuti , Enrico Scalas , Bruno Toaldo

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

In this work we extend a recent kinetic traffic model to the case of more than one class of vehicles, each of which is characterized by few different microscopic features. We consider a Boltzmann-like framework with only binary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

A microscopic formulation of the definition of both the heat flux and the viscous stress tensor is proposed in the framework of kinetic theory for relativistic gases emphasizing on the physical nature of such fluxes. A Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-20 A. L. Garcia-Perciante , A. Sandoval-Villalbazo , L. S. Garcia-Colin

A microscopic, driven lattice gas model is proposed for the dynamics and spatio-temporal fluctuations of the precursor film observed in spreading experiments. Matter is transported both by holes and particles, and the distribution of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas B. Abraham , Rodolfo Cuerno , Esteban Moro

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

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The lattice Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the velocity distribution function on a lattice in a manner that macroscopic fluid dynamical behavior is recovered. Although the equation is a derivative of lattice gas automata, it…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 James D. Sterling , Shiyi Chen

We have obtained the Vlasov equation and Boltzmann kinetic equation using Poisson bracket (classical Hamilton equation) and Rindler Hamiltonian. Further, we treat the whole Universe as a statistical system with galaxies as the point…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Soma Mitra , Somenath Chakrabarty

We investigate the wave packet dynamics of a pair of particles that undergoes a rapid change of scattering length. The short-range interactions are modeled in the zero-range limit, where the quench is accomplished by switching the boundary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-10 John P. Corson , John L. Bohn

This paper gives the first full proof of the justification of the linear Boltzmann equation from an underlying long range particle evolution. We suppose that a tagged particle is interacting with a background via a two body potential that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Matthew Egginton , Florian Theil

Obtaining a rigorous justification of the kinetic theory of gases from Newton's second law of dynamics for a large number of identical spheres interacting by elastic binary collisions, is a problem formulated by Hilbert in 1900 (Hilbert's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 François Golse

We study the dynamics of entanglement in spin gases. A spin gas consists of a (large) number of interacting particles whose random motion is described classically while their internal degrees of freedom are described quantum-mechanically.…

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We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

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We study the transport of self-propelled particles in dynamic complex environments. To obtain exact results, we introduce a model of run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) moving in discrete time on a $d$-dimensional cubic lattice in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-12 Thibault Bertrand , Yongfeng Zhao , Olivier Bénichou , Julien Tailleur , Raphaël Voituriez

We consider a tracer particle performing a random walk on a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of immobile hard obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a constant force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-05 Dan Shafir , Alessio Squarcini , Stanislav Burov , Thomas Franosch

The simulation of rarefied gas flow based on the Boltzmann equation is challenging, especially when the gas mixtures have disparate molecular masses. In this paper, a computationally tractable kinetic model is proposed for monatomic gas…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Qi Li , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

We study the kinetic theory of a weakly interacting quantum field. Assuming a state that is close to homogeneous and stationary, we derive a closed kinetic equation for the rate of change of the occupation numbers, perturbatively in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xu-Yao Hu , Vladimir Rosenhaus

In this paper we apply the lattice-Boltzmann method and an extension to particle suspensions as introduced by Ladd et al. to study transport phenomena and structuring effects of particles suspended in a fluid near sheared solid walls. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Komnik , J. Harting , H. J. Herrmann