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We consider the unsteady problem for the general planar Broadwell model with four velocities in a rectangular spatial domain over a finite time interval. We impose a class of non-negative initial and Dirichlet boundary data that are bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Koudzo Togbévi Selom Sobah , Amah Séna d'Almeida

A new coercivity estimate on the spectral gap of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator for multiple species is proved. The assumptions on the collision kernels include hard and Maxwellian potentials under Grad's angular cut-off…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Esther Sarah Daus , Ansgar Jüngel , Clément Mouhot , Nicola Zamponi

As for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian molecules with the fractional Fokker-Planck diffusion term, we consider the Cauchy problem for its Fourier-transformed version, which can be viewed as a kinetic model for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Yong-Kum Cho

Starting from the local-in-time classical solution to the compressible Euler system with impermeable boundary condition in half-space, by employing the coupled weak viscous layers (governed by linearized compressible Prandtl equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Shaojun Tang

The paper concerns $L^1$- convergence to equilibrium for weak solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann Equation for soft potentials $(-4\le \gm<0$), with and without angular cutoff. We prove the time-averaged $L^1$-convergence to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Xuguang Lu

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

We introduce a class of Boltzmann equations on the real line, which constitute extensions of the classical Kac caricature. The collisional gain operators are defined by smoothing transformations with quite general properties. By…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-16 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Daniel Matthes

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Matthew Egginton , Florian Theil

The Boltzmann equation is one of the most famous equations and has vast applications in modern science. In the current study, we take the randomness of binary collisions into consideration and generalize the classical Boltzmann equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-04 Liu Hong

We consider a simplified Boltzmann equation: spatially homogeneous, two-dimensional, radially symmetric, with Grad's angular cutoff, and linearized around its initial condition. We prove that for a sufficiently singular velocity cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-21 Nicolas Fournier

We consider a quasilinear nonhomogeneous, anisotropic Maxwell system in a bounded smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ with a strictly positive conductivity subject to the boundary conditions of a perfect conductor. Under appropriate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Irena Lasiecka , Michael Pokojovy , Roland Schnaubelt

We consider certain Boltzmann type equations on a bounded physical and a bounded velocity space under the presence of both, reflective as well as diffusive boundary conditions. We introduce conditions on the shape of the physical space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Jin Woo Jang , Kunlun Qi

Motivated by the numerical investigation by Aoki et al. [1], we study a rarefied gas flow between two parallel infinite plates of the same temperature governed by the Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundaries, where one plate is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Renjun Duan , Zhu Zhang

We consider the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff for soft potentials. For any given initial datum such that the mass, energy and entropy densities are bounded and the mass is away from vacuum, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Ling-Bing He , Jie Ji , Wei-Xi Li

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

The spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard potentials is considered for measure valued initial data having finite mass and energy. We prove the existence of \emph{weak measure solutions}, with and without angular cutoff on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Xuguang Lu , Clément Mouhot

In many numerical implementations of the Cauchy formulation of Einstein's field equations one encounters artificial boundaries which raises the issue of specifying boundary conditions. Such conditions have to be chosen carefully. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-06 Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach

We develop the regularity theory of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with cut-off and hard potentials (for instance, hard spheres), by (i) revisiting the Lp-theory to obtain constructive bounds, (ii) establishing propagation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Cédric Villani