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This paper deals with solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for spatially uniform freely cooling inelastic Maxwell models for large times and for large velocities, and the nonuniform convergence to these limits. We demonstrate how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. H. Ernst , R. Brito

We study a one-dimensional fluid of hard-rods interacting each other via binary inelastic collisions and a short ranged square-well potential. Upon tuning the depth and the sign of the well, we investigate the interplay between dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi , Maurizio Natali , Giulio Costantini , Fabio Cecconi

The homogeneous state of a granular flow of smooth inelastic hard spheres or disks described by the Enskog-Boltzmann kinetic equation is analyzed. The granular gas is fluidized by the presence of a random force and a drag force. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Moisés G. Chamorro , Francisco Vega Reyes , Vicente Garzó

The Boltzmann equation is essential for gas thermodynamics,as it models how the molecular density distribution $F(t,x,v)$ changes over time. However, existing research primarily focuses on the single species Boltzmann equation, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang , Tianfang Wu

We prove a strong/weak stability estimate for the 3D homogeneous Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-1,0)$) using the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost. This in particular implies the uniqueness in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Liping Xu

We use a careful treatment of time-dependent wave-mechanical scattering to determine the conditions under which a dilute, non-degenerate quantum gas can obey a Boltzmann equation. If the gas possesses weak long-range coherence, such as may…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-08 L. Rico-Pérez , J. R. Anglin

In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation in a close to the hydrodynamic limit regime, set in bounded spatial domains with non-isothermal Maxwell boundary conditions. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 R Medina

We study the detailed out of equilibrium time evolution of a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate.We consider a nonrelativistic quantum theory for a self-interacting complex scalar field, immersed in a thermal bath, as an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel G. Barci , E. S. Fraga , Rudnei O. Ramos

We study steady Boltzmann equation in half-space, which arises in the Knudsen boundary layer problem, with diffusive reflection boundary conditions. Under certain admissible conditions and the source term decaying exponentially, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Yong Wang , Feimin Huang

This study investigates the steady Boltzmann equation in one spatial variable for a polyatomic single-component gas in a half-space. Inflow boundary conditions are assumed at the half-space boundary, where particles entering the half-space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Niclas Bernhoff , Stephane Brull , Eddie Wadbro

We introduce a variational formulation of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, with hard-sphere cross section, which selects the unique energy conserving solution. We prove that this solution arises from the microscopic dynamics, namely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Carlo Orrieri

The controversial problem of an isolated system with an internal adiabatic wall is investigated with the use of a simple microscopic model and the Boltzmann equation. In the case of two infinite volume one-dimensional ideal fluids separated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Piasecki , Ch. Gruber

We prove the so-called generalized Haff's law yielding the optimal algebraic cooling rate of the temperature of a granular gas described by the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic interactions with non constant restitution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Ricardo J. Alonso , Bertrand Lods

Pulvirenti and Toscani introduced an equation which extends the Kac caricature of a Maxwellian gas to inelastic particles. We show that the probability distribution, solution of the relative Cauchy problem, converges weakly to a probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Ester Gabetta , Eugenio Regazzini

We study a two-dimensional gas of inelastic smooth hard dimers. Since the collisions between dimers are dissipative, being characterized by a coefficient of restitution $\alpha<1$, and no external driving force is present, the energy of the…

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Francis Filbet

We prove the stability of $L^{1}$ self-similar profiles under the hard-to-Maxwell potential limit for the one-dimensional inelastic Boltzmann equation with moderately hard potentials which, in turn, leads to the uniqueness of such profiles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-09 R. Alonso , V. Bagland , J. A. Cañizo , B. Lods , S. Throm

Due to the mathematical complexity of the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres, a kinetic model has recently been proposed whereby the collision rate (which is proportional to the relative velocity for hard spheres) is replaced by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Santos

When the temperature of a trapped Bose gas is below the Bose-Einstein transition temperature and above absolute zero, the gas is composed of two distinct components: the Bose-Einstein condensate and the cloud of thermal excitations. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Gheorghe Craciun , Minh-Binh Tran

By using the Enskog-Boltzmann approach, we study the steady-state dynamics of a granular discorectangle placed in a two-dimensional bath of thermalized hard disks. Hard core collisions are assumed elastic between disks and inelastic between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Gomart , J. Talbot , P. Viot