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We consider the nonlinear boundary layers of the Boltzmann equation in a three-dimensional half-space by perturbing around a Maxwellian, under the assumption that the Mach number of the Maxwellian satisfies ${\cal M}_{\infty} < -1$. In…
In rotationally symmetric domains, the Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition has a special type of equilibrium states called the rotational local Maxwellian which, unlike the uniform Maxwellian, has an additional…
As a continuation of our series works on the Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff assumption, in this part, the global existence of solution to the Cauchy problem in the whole space is proved in some suitable weighted Sobolev spaces…
In the paper, we establish the existence of steady boundary layer solution of Boltzmann equation with specular boundary condition in $L^2_{x,v}\cap L^\infty_{x,v}$ in half-space. The uniqueness, continuity and exponential decay of the…
Departing from the weak solution, we prove the uniqueness, smoothing estimates and the global dynamics for the non cutoff spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with moderate soft potentials. Our results show that the behavior of the…
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…
Boundary effects play an important role in the study of hydrodynamic limits in the Boltzmann theory. We justify rigorously the validity of the hydrodynamic limit from the Boltzmann equation of soft potentials to the compressible Euler…
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…
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:…
Vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations can be viewed as the interplay between the geometry and the gravitational wave energy content. The constraints on initial data reflect this interaction. We assume we are looking at cosmological…
This paper is concerned with the boundary-value problem on the Boltzmann equation in bounded domains with diffuse-reflection boundary where the boundary temperature is time-periodic. We establish the existence of time-periodic solutions…
We develop the idea that a natural link between Boltzmann schemes and finite volumes exists naturally: the conserved mass and momentum during the collision phase of the Boltzmann scheme induces general expressions for mass and momentum…
In this paper, we consider initial-boundary value problems for two-component nonlinear systems of time-fractional diffusion equations with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition and non-negative initial values. The main results are the…
We study steady solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation with hard-sphere interactions in a slab geometry. Under a spatial symmetry assumption in the transverse variables $x_2$ and $x_3$, the problem reduces to a one-dimensional…
The Cauchy problem for the inelastic Boltzmann equation is studied for small data. Existence and uniqueness of mild and weak solutions is obtained for sufficiently small data that lies in the space of functions bounded by Maxwellians. The…
We give a lower bound for the Lorentz length of the ADM energy-momentum vector (ADM mass) of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat initial data sets for the Einstein equations. The bound is given in terms of linear growth `spacetime harmonic…
Consider a microscopic system of $N$ hard spheres that are initially independent (modulo the exclusion condition on particle positions) and identically distributed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the number $N$ of particles goes to infinity and the…
This paper is concerned with the inelastic Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff. We work in the spatially homogeneous case. We establish the global-in-time existence of measure-valued solutions under the generic hard potential…
By suitably re-scaling the conformal Einstein's equations we are able to apply recent results in the theory of PDE, and prove that they possess slow solutions in a future neighborhood of an initial surface reaching ${\cal I}^+$. The…
In this paper we propose a novel approach to construct macroscopic balance equations and constitutive equations describing various irreversible phenomena. It is based on the general principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and consists…