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We consider weak solutions of the inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation in a bounded domain with any of the usual physical boundary conditions: in-flow, bounce-back, specular-reflection and diffuse-reflection. When the mass, energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Zhimeng Ouyang , Luis Silvestre

We start with some global Maxwellian function $M$, which is a stationary solution (with the constant total density $\rho$) of the Boltzmann equation, and we denote the number of the corresponding space variables by $n$. The notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Lev Sakhnovich

This paper establishes the global well-posedness of the multi-species Boltzmann equation with large-amplitude initial data in the periodic domain $\mathbb{T}^3$. In contrast to the single-species case, the multi-species mixture model lacks…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Gyounghun Ko , Myeong-Su Lee , Sung-Jun Son

In a general $C^1$ domain, we study the perturbative Cauchy theory for the Boltzmann equation with Maxwell boundary conditions with an accommodation coefficient $\alpha$ in $(\sqrt{2/3},1]$, and discuss this threshold. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Marc Briant , Yan Guo

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

In this paper it is shown that unique solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation exist for all time and decay with any polynomial rate towards their steady state relativistic Maxwellian provided that the initial data starts out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Robert M. Strain

We consider the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with hard potentials in the non-perturbative setting. For initial data with polynomial decay in the velocity variable, we establish the local-in-time existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Hao-Guang Li , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Ling-Bing He , Jie Ji

This paper aims to incorporate the Caflisch's decomposition into the macro-micro decomposition in Boltzmann theory for allowing the microscopic component to exhibit only the polynomial tail in large velocities. In particular, we treat the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

For the relativistic Boltzmann equation in $\R^3_x$, this work proves the global existence, uniqueness, positivity, and optimal time convergence rates to the relativistic Maxwellian for solutions which start out sufficiently close under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Robert M. Strain , Keya Zhu

When dilute charged particles are confined in a bounded domain, boundary effects are crucial in the global dynamics. We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

It is known that the singularity in the non-cutoff cross-section of the Boltzmann equation leads to the gain of regularity and gain of weight in the velocity variable. By defining and analyzing a non-isotropy norm which precisely captures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

The relativistic Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been widely used in physics and engineering, for example, Tokamak devices in fusion reactors.In spite of its importance, there has, to the best of our knowledge, been no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Yong Wang , Changguo Xiao

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

We construct a unique global solution to the Cauchy problem of the 3D Boltzmann equation for initial data around the Maxwellian in the spatially critical homogeneous Besov space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Jing Liu , Ling-Yun Shou , Jiang Xu

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem on the Boltzmann equation in the whole space. The goal is to construct global-in-time bounded mild solutions near Maxwellians with the perturbation admitting a polynomial tail in large velocities.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li , Shuangqian Liu

Let rarefied gas be confined in an infinite layer with diffusely reflecting boundaries that are isothermal and non-moving. The initial-boundary value problem on the nonlinear Boltzmann equation governing the rarefied gas flow in such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Junhao Zhang

We consider the Boltzmann equation with external fields in strictly convex domains with the specular reflection boundary condition. We construct classical $C^1$ solutions away from the grazing set under the assumption that the external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Yunbai Cao

We prove the immediate appearance of an exponential lower bound, uniform in time and space, for continuous mild solutions to the full Boltzmann equation in a $C^2$ convex bounded domain with the physical Maxwellian diffusion boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant

We study the Cauchy problem for the relativistic Boltzmann equation near relativistic Maxwellians in the whole space. The purpose of this article is to handle hard potentials, and for initial data with finite $L^\infty$ norm, to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Koya Nishimura