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We consider the rate of convergence of solutions of spatially inhomogenous Boltzmann equations, with hard sphere potentials, to some equilibriums, called Maxwellians. Maxwellians are spatially homogenous static Maxwell velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Zhou Gang

We consider a one-dimensional system consisting of a granular tracer particle of mass $M$ in a bath of thermalized particles each of mass $m$. When the mass ratio, $M/m$, is equal to the coefficient of restitution, $\alpha$, the system maps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Piasecki , J. Talbot , P. Viot

The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garz\'o, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-07 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for ballistic annihilation in dimension d 2. Such model describes a system of ballistic hard spheres that, at the moment of interaction, either annihilate with probability $\alpha$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Ricardo Alonso , Véronique Bagland , Bertrand Lods , V Eronique Bagland

The homogeneous cooling state (HCS) of a granular gas described by the inelastic Boltzmann equation is reconsidered. As usual, particles are taken as inelastic hard disks or spheres, but now the coefficient of normal restitution $\alpha$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-19 Nagi Khalil

We show the existence of a self-similar solution for a modified Boltzmann equation describing probabilistic ballistic annihilation. Such a model describes a system of hard-spheres such that, whenever two particles meet, they either…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Véronique Bagland , Bertrand Lods

In this paper, we give an overview of the results established in [3] which provides the first rigorous derivation of hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres in 3D. In particular, we obtain a new system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Ricardo J. Alonso , Bertrand Lods , Isabelle Tristani

Hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture of inelastic hard spheres are derived from the Boltzmann kinetic theory. A normal solution is obtained via the Chapman-Enskog method for states near the local homogeneous cooling state. The mass,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Vicente Garzó , J. W. Dufty

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

This paper concerns a kinetic model of the thermostated Boltzmann equation with a linear deformation force described by a constant matrix. The collision kernel under consideration includes both the Maxwell molecule and general hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

The Boltzmann equation framework for inelastic Maxwell models is considered to determine the transport coefficients associated with the mass, momentum and heat fluxes of a granular binary mixture in spatially inhomogeneous states close to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-13 Vicente Garzó , Emmanuel Trizac

The simplest statistical mechanics model of a Coulomb plasma in two spatial dimensions admits an exact analytic solution at some special temperature in several (curved) surfaces. We present in a unifying perspective these solutions for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Riccardo Fantoni

We investigate the long time behavior of a system of viscoelastic particles modeled with the homogeneous Boltzmann equation. We prove the existence of a universal Maxwellian intermediate asymptotic state and explicit the rate of convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Ricardo J. Alonso , Bertrand Lods

We study a generic class of inelastic soft sphere models with a binary collision rate $g^\nu$ that depends on the relative velocity $g$. This includes previously studied inelastic hard spheres ($\nu=1$) and inelastic Maxwell molecules…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Ernst , E. Trizac , A. Barrat

In this paper, we study the polyatomic Boltzmann equation based on continuous internal energy, focusing on physically relevant collision kernels of the hard potentials type with integrable angular part. We establish three main results:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Čolić

Homo-energetic solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation have been extensively studied, but their global stability in the inhomogeneous setting remains challenging due to unbounded energy growth under self-similar scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Shunlin Shen

We prove uniqueness of self-similar profiles for the one-dimensional inelastic Boltzmann equation with moderately hard potentials, that is with collision kernel of the form | $\bullet$ | $\gamma$ for $\gamma$ > 0 small enough (explicitly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Ricardo J. Alonso , Véronique Bagland , José A. Cañizo , Bertrand Lods , Sebastian Throm

We consider a quantum particle coupled (with strength $\la$) to a spatial array of independent non-interacting reservoirs in thermal states (heat baths). Under the assumption that the reservoir correlations decay exponentially in time, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. De Roeck , J. Frohlich , A. Pizzo

For open quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath at inverse temperature $\beta$, it is well known that under the Born-, Markov-, and secular approximations the system density matrix will approach the thermal Gibbs state with the bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Gernot Schaller

We study here the steady state attained in a granular gas of inelastic rough spheres that is subject to a spatially uniform random volume force. The stochastic force has the form of the so-called white noise and acts by adding impulse to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-05 Francisco Vega Reyes , Andrés Santos