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We investigate the Boltzmann equation with spatial smearing, diffusive boundary conditions, and Lions' collision kernel. Both, the physical as well as the velocity space, are assumed to be bounded. Existence and uniqueness of a stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

The rigorous justification of the hydrodynamic limits of kinetic equations in bounded domains has been actively investigated in recent years. In spite of the progress for the diffuse-reflection boundary case, the more challenging in-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Zhimeng Ouyang , Lei Wu

In the paper, we develop spectral theory to analyze the sharp asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Boltzmann equation around global Maxwellians in a three-dimensional infinite layer $\mathbb{R}^2\times (-1,1)$. The isothermal diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

Derivation of the lattice Boltzmann method from the continuous kinetic theory [X. He and L. S. Luo, {\it Phys. Rev. E} {\bf 55}, R6333 (1997); X. Shan and X. He, {\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 80}, 65 (1998)] is extended in order to obtain…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-07 Santosh Ansumali , Iliya V. Karlin

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet boundary value problem of steady-state relativistic Boltzmann equation in half-line with hard potential model, given the data for the outgoing particles at the boundary and a relativistic global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yi Wang , Li Li , Zaihong Jiang

We study the long-time dynamics of the time-evolutionary Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisions in the three-dimensional half-space \( \mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{R}^+\), subject to diffuse reflection boundary conditions and small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Hongxu Chen , Jun-ling Chen , Renjun Duan

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental equation in kinetic theory that describes the motion of rarefied gases. In this study, we examine the Boltzmann equation within a $C^1$ bounded domain, subject to a large external potential $\Phi(x)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

We propose a well-posed Maxwell-type boundary condition for the linear moment system in half-space. As a reduction of the Boltzmann equation, the moment equations are available to model Knudsen layers near a solid wall, where proper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Ruo Li , Yichen Yang

The formation and propagation of singularities for Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been an important question in numerical studies as well as in theoretical studies. Consider the nonlinear Boltzmann solution near Maxwellians under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Chanwoo Kim

The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

The paper is devoted to constructing the global solutions around global Maxwellians to the initial-boundary value problem on the Boltzmann equation in general bounded domains with isothermal diffuse reflection boundaries. We allow a class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Renjun Duan , Yong Wang

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

We establish the global-wellposedness and stability of the Boltzmann equation with the specular reflection boundary condition in general smooth convex domains when an initial datum is close to the Maxwellian with or without a small external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Chanwoo Kim , Donghyun Lee

We study the Boltzmann equation for a space-homogeneous gas of inelastic hard spheres, with a diffusive term representing a random background forcing. Under the assumption that the initial datum is a nonnegative $L^2$ function, with bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Irene M. Gamba , Vladislav Panferov , Cedric Villani

In this work, we show that the widely used bounce-back boundary condition is an incomplete form of the diffuse reflection boundary condition at the continuum limit for lattice Boltzmann simulations. By utilizing this fact, we can force the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-31 Jianping Meng , Xiao-Jun Gu , David R Emerson , Yong Peng , Jianmin Zhang

Consider the linear Boltzmann equation of radiative transfer in a half-space, with constant scattering coefficient $\sigma$. Assume that, on the boundary of the half-space, the radiation intensity satisfies the Lambert (i.e. diffuse)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Claude Bardos , François Golse , Iván Moyano

We study the degenerate linear Boltzmann equation inside a bounded domain with a generalized diffuse reflection at the boundary and variable temperature, including the Maxwell boundary conditions with the wall Maxwellian or heavy-tailed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Armand Bernou

In this paper, we rigorously justify the incompressible Euler limit of the Boltzmann equation with general Maxwell reflection boundary condition in the half-space. The accommodation coefficient $\alpha \in (0,1]$ is assumed to be $O(1)$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Ning Jiang , Chao Wang , Yulong Wu , Zhifei Zhang

We investigate the fractional diffusion approximation of a kinetic equation set in a bounded interval with diffusive reflection conditions at the boundary. In an appropriate singular limit corresponding to small Knudsen number and long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Ludovic Cesbron , Antoine Mellet , Marjolaine Puel

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