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The frequency dependent phonon Boltzmann equation is transformed to an integral equation over the irreducible part of the Brillouin zone. Simultaneous diagonalization of the collision kernel of that equation and a symmetry crystal class…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-19 Laurent Chaput

Event-by-event QCD kinetic theory simulations are hindered by the large numerical cost of evaluating the high-dimensional collision integral in the Boltzmann equation. In this work, we show that a neural network can be used to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Sergio Barrera Cabodevila , Aleksi Kurkela , Florian Lindenbauer

Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

Many physical systems are described by probability distributions that evolve in both time and space. Modeling these systems is often challenging to due large state space and analytically intractable or computationally expensive dynamics. To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

We develop a Monte Carlo wave function algorithm for the quantum linear Boltzmann equation, a Markovian master equation describing the quantum motion of a test particle interacting with the particles of an environmental background gas. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Marc Busse , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Klaus Hornberger

High-frequency issues have been remarkably challenges in numerical methods for partial differential equations. In this paper, a learning based numerical method (LbNM) is proposed for Helmholtz equation with high frequency. The main novelty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Yu Chen , Jin Cheng , Tingyue Li , Yun Miao

We present a new numerical algorithm based on a relative energy scaling for collisional kinetic equations allowing to study numerically their long time behavior, without the usual problems related to the change of scales in velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Francis Filbet , Thomas Rey

When simulating multicomponent mixtures via the Lattice Boltzmann Method, it is desirable to control the mutual diffusivity between species while maintaining the viscosity of the solution fixed. This goal is herein achieved by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 Michele Monteferrante , Simone Melchionna , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

In this paper, we study the inverse scattering problem for a class of signals that have a compactly supported reflection coefficient. The problem boils down to the solution of the Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko (GLM) integral equations with a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Vishal Vaibhav

We study uncertainty quantification for a Boltzmann-Poisson system that models electron transport in semiconductors and the physical collision mechanisms over the charges. We use the stochastic Galerkin method in order to handle the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Jose A. Morales Escalante , Clemens Heitzinger

In this paper we develop a class of efficient Galerkin boundary element methods for the solution of two-dimensional exterior single-scattering problems. Our approach is based upon construction of Galerkin approximation spaces confined to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Fatih Ecevit , Hasan Hüseyin Eruslu

We propose a dual-resolution prescription meant for the Boltzmann neutrino transport, in which the advection and collision terms are calculated with different angular resolutions in momentum space. The purpose is to address the issue of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Akira Ito , Ryuichiro Akaho , Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

We study the structure of a shock wave for a two-, three- and four-component gas mixture on the basis of numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for the model of hard sphere molecules. For the evaluation of collision integrals we use…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-14 A. A. Raines

A thermal lattice Boltzmann model is constructed on the basis of the ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ES-BGK) collision operator via the Hermite moment representation. The resulting lattice ES-BGK model uses a single…

Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

We attempt the use of a unitary operator to approximate the lattice Boltzmann collision operator. We use a modified amplitude encoding to bypass the renormalization that would have required classical processing at every step (thus eroding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wael Itani , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Recently, a new class of semi-Lagrangian methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation has been introduced [8, 17, 18]. These methods work in a satisfactory way either in rarefied or fluid regime. Moreover, because of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Giovanni Russo , Pietro Santagati , Seok-Bae Yun

We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…

This work explores the capability of simulating complex fluid flows by directly solving the Boltzmann equation. Due to the high-dimensionality of the governing equation, the substantial computational cost of solving the Boltzmann equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli

We study the Boltzmann equation with elastic point-like scalar interactions in two different versions of the the classical approximation. Although solving numerically the Boltzmann equation with the unapproximated collision term poses no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-07 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis , Naoto Tanji , Bin Wu