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We derive and implement a suitable boundary condition for the kinetic description of the electrons inside a plasma, which takes into account microphysical processes inside the wall. It is based on the surface scattering kernel, which…

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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

We consider a kinetic model whose evolution is described by a Boltzmann-like equation for the one-particle phase space distribution $f(x,v,t)$. There are hard-sphere collisions between the particles as well as collisions with randomly fixed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Raffaele Esposito , Pedro G. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz , Rossana Marra

The exterior domain problem is essential in fluid and kinetic equations. In this paper, we establish the validity of the diffusive expansion for the Boltzmann equations to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system up to the critical time in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Yan Guo , Junhwa Jung

In this paper we present a fully deterministic method for the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation of rarefied gas dynamics in a bounded domain for multi-scale problems. Periodic, specular reflection and diffusive boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Francis Filbet

This paper is devoted to the hydrodynamic limit for the linear Boltzmann equation, in the case of a heavy tail equilibrium and a cross section which depends on the space variable and which degenerates for large velocities, without symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Dahmane Dechicha

We perform the analysis of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line with time-dependent boundary conditions along the lines of the nonlinear method of images with the help of B\"acklund transformations. The difficulty…

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We study the asymptotic diffusion processes with (generally nonlocal) open boundaries in one dimension which are exactly solvable by means of the recently developed recursion formula. We investigate the stationary states, which cannot be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira FUJII

We consider self-similar approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in one space dimension with Riemann initial data and general diffusion matrix. We assume that the matrix of the system is strictly hyperbolic and the diffusion matrix…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-16 K. T. Joseph , Philippe G. LeFloch

We find an explicit form of weak solutions to a Riemann problem for a degenerate semilinear parabolic equation with piecewise constant diffusion coefficient. It is demonstrated that the phase transition lines (free boundaries) correspond to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Evgeny Yu. Panov

We study the boundary layer solution to singular perturbation problems involving Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) type equations with a small parameter $\epsilon$ in general bounded smooth domains (including multiply connected domains) under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Jhih-Hong Lyu , Tai-Chia Lin

Homo-energetic solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation have been extensively studied, but their global stability in the inhomogeneous setting remains challenging due to unbounded energy growth under self-similar scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Shunlin Shen

We consider a system of semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with a nonlinearity depending on both the solution and its gradient. The Neumann boundary condition depends on the solution in a nonlinear manner. The uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Khaled Bahlali , Brahim Boufoussi , Soufiane Mouchtabih

The diffraction of a plane wave by a transversely inhomogeneous isotropic nonmagnetic linearly polarized dielectric layer filled with a Kerr-type nonlinear medium is considered. The analytical and numerical solution techniques are…

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A review of solutions of solid-state diffusion problems in infinite and semi-infinite bodies is presented. Based on the identified solutions for the semi-infinite body a two-step diffusion problem is discussed in detail with the first step…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-09 Guglielmo Macrelli

The boundary problem about behaviour (oscillations) of the electronic plasmas with arbitrary degree of degeneration of electronic gas in half-space with diffusion boundary conditions is analytically solved. The kinetic equation of Vlasov -…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 A. V. Latyshev , S. Suleimanova

In the frame of the Boltzmann equation, wall-bounded flows of rarefied gases require the implementation of boundary conditions at the kinetic level. Such boundary conditions induce a discontinuity in the distribution function with respect…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-07 Victor E. Ambrus , Victor Sofonea , Richard Fournier , Stéphane Blanco

We study the heat equation on a half-space with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to show that, if the diffusion coefficient tends to infinity, then the solutions converge (in a suitable sense) to solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Marek Fila , Kazuhiro Ishige , Tatsuki Kawakami

We consider the hydrodynamic limit of a stationary Boltzmann equation in a unit plate with in-flow boundary. We prove the solution can be approximated in $L^{\infty}$ by the sum of interior solution which satisfies steady incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Lei Wu

An asymptotic analysis for a system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is carried out as the coefficient of the surface diffusion acting on the phase variable tends to 0, thus obtaining a forward-backward…

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