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A modified lattice Boltzmann model with a stochastic relaxation mechanism mimicking "virtual'' collisions between free-streaming particles and solid walls is introduced. This modified scheme permits to compute plane channel flows in…

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We review some recent developments of Grad's approach to solving the Boltzmann equation and creating reduced description. The method of invariant manifold is put forward as a unified principle to establish corrections to Grad's equations. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

We present a hybrid Boltzmann-BGK model for inert mixtures, where each kind of binary interaction may be described by a classical Boltzmann integral or by a suitable relaxation-type operator. We allow also the possibility of changing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Marzia Bisi , Maria Groppi , Giorgio Martalò

We study the dynamics of gradient flow with small weight decay on general training losses $F: \mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}$. Under mild regularity assumptions and assuming convergence of the unregularised gradient flow, we show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Etienne Boursier , Scott Pesme , Radu-Alexandru Dragomir

The equivalence of cooling to the gradient flow when the cooling step $n_c$ and the continuous flow step of gradient flow $\tau$ are matched is generalized to gauge actions that include rectangular terms. By expanding the link variables up…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-23 Constantia Alexandrou , Andreas Athenodorou , Karl Jansen

We investigate the fractional diffusion limit of a Linear Boltzmann equation with heavy-tailed velocity equilibrium in a half-space with Maxwell boundary conditions. We derive a new confined version of the fractional Laplacian and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Ludovic Cesbron

We justify Prandtl equations and higher order Prandtl expansion from the hydrodynamic limit of the Boltzmann equations. Our fluid data is of the form $\text{shear flow}$, plus $\sqrt\kappa$ order term in analytic spaces in $x_\parallel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Chanwoo Kim , Trinh T. Nguyen

We prove the convergence of a Wasserstein gradient flow of a free energy in inhomogeneous media. Both the energy and media can depend on the spatial variable in a fast oscillatory manner. In particular, we show that the gradient-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yuan Gao , Nung Kwan Yip

Analytical solutions to the lattice Boltzmann Equation make it possible to study the method itself, explore the properties of its collision operator, and identify implementations of boundary conditions. In this paper, we propose a method to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-02 Jordan Larson , Alexander J. Wagner

We study fluctuations of the empirical processes of a non-equilibrium interacting particle system consisting of two species over a domain that is recently introduced in [8] and establish its functional central limit theorem. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Zhen-Qing Chen , Wai-Tong Louis Fan

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

This paper is concerned with approximations of the Boltzmann equation based on the method of moments. We propose a generalization of the setting of the moment-closure problem from relative entropy to {\phi}-divergences and a corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 M. R. A. Abdel-Malik , E. H. van Brummelen

We introduce a novel approach to study the longitudinal hydrodynamic expansion of the quark-gluon fluid created in heavy-ion collisions. It consists of two steps: First, we apply the maximum entropy method to reconstruct the freeze-out…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-24 Mikhail Stephanov , Yi Yin

The paper studies a Milne type problem for a linearized quantum Boltzmann equation. Existence and uniqueness of the solution, together with asymptotic properties are proven for a given energy flow. The energy flow is proportional to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 L. Arkeryd , A. Nouri

In this paper, we explore the convergence of the semi-discrete Scharfetter-Gummel scheme for the aggregation-diffusion equation using a variational approach. Our investigation involves obtaining a novel gradient structure for the finite…

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Tackling semi-supervised learning problems with graph-based methods has become a trend in recent years since graphs can represent all kinds of data and provide a suitable framework for studying continuum limits, e.g., of differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Tim Roith , Leon Bungert

We illustrate with both a Boltzmann diffusion equation and full simulations of jet propagation in heavy-ion collisions within the Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model that the spatial gradient of the jet transport coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-01 Yayun He , Longgang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

Combining analytical and numerical methods, we study within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, a broad class of models relevant for the dynamics of dissipative fluids, including granular gases. We use the new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-23 E. Trizac , A. Barrat , M. H. Ernst

In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) equation with a small collision frequency $0 < \nu \ll 1$, exploring the interplay between the regularity and size of perturbations in the context of the asymptotic stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jacob Bedrossian , Weiren Zhao , Ruizhao Zi

In the paper, we study the plane Couette flow of a rarefied gas between two parallel infinite plates at $y=\pm L$ moving relative to each other with opposite velocities $(\pm \alpha L,0,0)$ along the $x$-direction. Assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang