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In this work we adapt the foundations of relativistic kinetic theory and the Boltzmann equation to particles with Lorentz-violating dispersion relations. The latter are taken to be those associated to two commonly considered sets of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Robertus Potting

This paper constitutes a step in the direction of developing integer lattice gas methods as an attractive alternative to lattice Boltzmann methods. Here we show that to Boltzmann limit the one dimensional Blommel integer lattice gas is very…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Noah Seekins , Alexander J. Wagner

We use the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation to study the expansion of a dilute Fermi gas at unitarity. We focus, in particular, on the approach to the hydrodynamic limit. Our main finding are: i) In the regime that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kevin Dusling , Thomas Schaefer

The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Karsten Matthies , Theodora Syntaka

This work considers gradient structures for the Becker-D\"oring equation and its macroscopic limits. The result of Niethammer [17] is extended to prove the convergence not only for solutions of the Becker-D\"oring equation towards the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 André Schlichting

We study the mean curvature flow of graphs both with Neumann boundary conditions and transport terms. We derive boundary gradient estimates for the mean curvature flow. As an application, the existence of the mean curvature flow of graphs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Masashi Mizuno , Keisuke Takasao

We propose a new semi-discretization scheme to approximate nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, by exploiting the gradient flow structures with respect to the 2-Wasserstein metric. We discretize the underlying state by a finite graph and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Shui-Nee Chow , Luca Dieci , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

In [L. Liu and S. Jin, Multiscale Model. Simult., 16, 1085-1114, 2018], spectral convergence and long-time decay of the numerical solution towards the global equilibrium of the stochastic Galerkin approximation for the Boltzmann equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Esther S. Daus , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is widely recognized as an efficient algorithm for simulating fluid flows in both single-phase and multi-phase scenarios. In this research, a quantum Carleman Linearization formulation of the Lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Bastien Bakker , Thomas W. Watts

We prove the well-posedness of entropy solutions for a wide class of nonlocal transport equations with nonlinear mobility in one spatial dimension. The solution is obtained as the limit of approximations constructed via a deterministic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Simone Fagioli , Oliver Tse

Generalising the work of Lenard and Bernstein, we introduce a new, fully relativistic model to describe collisional plasmas. Like the Fokker-Planck operator, this equation represents velocity diffusion and conserves particle number.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Adam Noble , David Burton

We consider a stochastic $N$-particle model for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann evolution and prove its convergence to the associated Boltzmann equation when $N\to \infty$. For any time $T>0$ we bound the distance between the empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Remi Peyre

We study the evolution of a quantum particle interacting with a random potential in the low density limit (Boltzmann-Grad). The phase space density of the quantum evolution defined through the Husimi function converges weakly to a linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Eng , Laszlo Erdos

In this paper we present a variational technique that handles coarse-graining and passing to a limit in a unified manner. The technique is based on a duality structure, which is present in many gradient flows and other variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Manh Hong Duong , Agnes Lamacz , Mark A. Peletier , Upanshu Sharma

Consider the initial-boundary value problem for the 2-speed Carleman model of the Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases set in some bounded interval with boundary conditions prescribing the density of particles entering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-27 François Golse , Francesco Salvarani

In the present paper, a new model of the collision term, of the Boltzmann Kinetic equation dealing with binary gas mixture affected by a centrifugal field, is introduced. The new model is representing a modification of the BGK…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-28 Taha Zakaraia Abdel Wahid

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 presents a rigorous convergence analysis of the $L^{p+1}$-normalized gradient flow with asymptotic Lagrange multiplier (GFALM) method for computing the action ground state of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the focusing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Wei Liu , Tingfeng Wang , Xiaofei Zhao

In this paper we consider the asymptotic behavior of the Ginzburg- Landau model for superconductivity in 3-d, in various energy regimes. We rigorously derive, through an analysis via {\Gamma}-convergence, a reduced model for the vortex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sisto Baldo , Robert L. Jerrard , Giandomenico Orlandi , Mete Soner

We present a new method in order to get variable slip coefficient in binary lattice Boltzmann models to simulate gaseous flows. Boundary layer theory is presented. We study both the single- and multi-fluid BGK-type models as well. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lajos Szalmás