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In the context of cosmological perturbation theory, we derive the second order Boltzmann equation describing the evolution of the distribution function of radiation without a specific gauge choice. The essential steps in deriving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atsushi Naruko , Cyril Pitrou , Kazuya Koyama , Misao Sasaki

We derive a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme, which uses a pressure correction forcing term for approximating the volume averaged Navier-Stokes equations (VANSE) in up to three dimensions. With a new definition of the zeroth moment of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Fedor Bukreev , Stephan Simonis , Adrian Kummerländer , Julius Jeßberger , Mathias J. Krause

A precision measurement of the gravitational constant $G$ has been made using a beam balance. Special attention has been given to determining the calibration, the effect of a possible nonlinearity of the balance and the zero-point variation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 St. Schlamminger , E. Holzschuh , W. Kündig , F. Nolting , R. E. Pixley , J. Schurr , U. Straumann

We are interested in the hydrodynamic limit of the Boltzmann equation for a gas of fermions in the incompressible Euler regime. We use the relative entropy method as improved by Saint-Raymond. Our result is analogous to what is obtained in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Thibaut Allemand

About 300 experiments have tried to determine the value of the Newtonian gravitational constant, G, so far, but large discrepancies in the results have made it impossible to know its value precisely. The weakness of the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 G. Rosi , F. Sorrentino , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid-gas systems are believed to be restricted to modest density ratios of less than 10. In this article we show that reducing the speed of sound and, just as importantly, the interfacial contributions to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Wagner , C. M. Pooley

In this paper we derive accurate numerical methods for the quantum Boltzmann equation for a gas of interacting bosons. The schemes preserve the main physical features of the continuous problem, namely conservation of mass and energy, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-15 P. A. Markowitch , L. Pareschi

In this paper, we rigorously derive a Boltzmann equation for mixtures from the many body dynamics of two types of hard sphere gases. We prove that the microscopic dynamics of two gases with different masses and diameters is well defined,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Joseph K. Miller , Nataša Pavlović

In the paper we study a measure version of the evolutionary nonlinear Boltzmann-type equation in which we admit a random number of collisions of particles. We consider first a stationary model and use two methods to find its fixed points:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 H. Gacki , Ł. Stettner

The applicability of stochastic differential equations to thermodynamics is considered and a new form, different from the classical Ito and Stratonovich forms, is introduced. It is shown that the new presentation is more appropriate for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Tsekov

In this paper we present an accurate analysis of the shape of an isolated rovibrational ammonia line from the strong nu2 band around 10 $\mu$m, recorded by laser absorption spectroscopy. Experimental spectra obtained under controlled…

Statistical parametric models are proposed to explain the values of the Planck constant obtained by comparing electrical and mechanical powers and by counting atoms in Si 28 enriched crystals. They assume that uncertainty contributions --…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-22 Giovanni Mana

We consider the Boltzmann equation for a gas in a horizontal slab, subject to a gravitational force. The boundary conditions are of diffusive type, specifying the wall temperatures, so that the top temperature is lower than the bottom one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-22 L. Arkeryd , R. Esposito , R. Marra , A. Nouri

The Boltzmann distribution describes a single parameter (temperature) family of probability distributions over a state space; at any given temperature, the ratio of probabilities of two states depends on their difference in energy. The same…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Simone Cerreia-Vioglio , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Aldo Rustichini

In Moln\'ar et al. [Phys. Rev. D 93, 114025 (2016)] the equations of anisotropic dissipative fluid dynamics were obtained from the moments of the Boltzmann equation based on an expansion around an arbitrary anisotropic single-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 Etele Molnár , Harri Niemi , Dirk H. Rischke

We study the nonlinear steady Boltzmann equation in the half space, with phase transition and Dirichlet boundary condition. In particular, we study the regularity of the solution to the half-space problem in the situation that the gas is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Hongxu Chen

In the article, correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert method and the Enskog error are considered. The equations system of multi-component nonequilibrium gas-dynamics is derived,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-12 Sergey A. Serov , Svetlana S. Serova

We have presented first an axiomatic derivation of Boltzmann entropy on the basis of two axioms consistent with two basic properties of thermodynamic entropy. We have then studied the relationship between Boltzmann entropy and information…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-22 C. G. Chakrabarti , Indranil Chakrabarty

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

When the flow is sufficiently rarefied, a temperature gradient, for example, between two walls separated by a few mean free paths, induces a gas flow---an observation attributed to the thermo-stress convection effects at microscale. The…