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This paper considers a system of Boltzmann equations modelling the mixture of monatomic and polyatomic gases in an $L^{2}-L^{\infty}$ perturbation theory around global modified Maxwellians accounting for the internal energy of the mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Ricardo Alonso , Zongguang Li

In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Alessandro Munafo , Jeffrey R. Haack , Irene M. Gamba , Thierry E. Magin

We present the perturbative solution of the multicomponent Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the set of observables including the hydrodynamic velocity and temperature for each component. The solution is obtained by modifying the formal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-23 S. V. Savenko , E. A. J. F. Peters , P. J. A. M. Kerkhof

The existence of stationary distributions in a multicomponent Boltzmann equation using a non-additive kinetic energy composition rule for binary collisions is discussed. It is found that detailed balance is not achieved when -- in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-19 M. Horváth , T. S. Biró

In this paper we consider the Boltzmann equation modelling the motion of a polyatomic gas where the integration collision operator in comparison with the classical one involves an additional internal energy variable $I\in\mathbb{R}_+$ and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

In this paper, a polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy is considered, allowing for frozen collisions, in which the kinetic energy of the colliding particle pair is conserved, and the internal energy of each particle remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Čolić

The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom and the wide range of both spatial and temporal scales render…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Anthony Chang , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi

Energy-based fragmentation methods approximate the potential energy of a molecular system as a sum of contribution terms built from the energies of particular subsystems. Some such methods reduce to truncations of the many-body expansion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 James Barker , Michael Griebel , Jan Hamaekers

We present a method for the decomposition of mass spectra of mixture gases using Bayesian probability theory. The method works without any calibration measurement and therefore applies also to the analysis of spectra containing unstable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 H. D. Kang , R. Preuss , T. Schwarz-Selinger , V. Dose

The Boltzmann equation is essential for gas thermodynamics,as it models how the molecular density distribution $F(t,x,v)$ changes over time. However, existing research primarily focuses on the single species Boltzmann equation, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang , Tianfang Wu

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 present a procedure to integrate, up to quadratures, the matching conditions of the energy shaping method. We do that in the context of underactuated Hamiltonian systems defined by simple Hamiltonian functions. For such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Sergio D. Grillo , Leandro M. Salomone , Marcela Zuccalli

Within the framework of the post-Newtonian $2\frac12$ approximation theory, a kinetic theory for relativistic gases in the presence of gravitational fields is developed. The Boltzmann equation and the equilibrium Maxwell-J\"uttner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Gilberto M. Kremer

In this paper we propose a novel approach to construct macroscopic balance equations and constitutive equations describing various irreversible phenomena. It is based on the general principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and consists…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-27 Liu Hong , Zaibao Yang , Yi Zhu , Wen-An Yong

In this paper, we study the initial value problem of a Boltzmann type equation with a nonlinear degenerate damping. We prove the existence of global weak solutions with large initial data, in three dimensional space. We rely on a variant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Cheng Yu

The problem of energy conservation in the lattice Boltzmann method is solved. A novel model with energy conservation is derived from Boltzmann's kinetic theory. It is demonstrated that the full thermo-hydrodynamics pertinent to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ansumali , I. V. Karlin

In this paper, we rigorously derive a Boltzmann equation for mixtures from the many body dynamics of two types of hard sphere gases. We prove that the microscopic dynamics of two gases with different masses and diameters is well defined,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Joseph K. Miller , Nataša Pavlović

Starting from the recently proposed energy-based deviational formulation for solving the Boltzmann equation [J.-P. Peraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Phys. Rev. B 84, 2011], which provides significant computational speedup compared to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

A simplified relativistic kinetic theory for gases with internal degrees of freedom, based on a BGK-type collision term, is considered. First the Boltzmann equation is rewritten in tetrad form and then thermal coefficients are determined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Philip Semrén , Michael Bradley , João M. S. Oliveira , M. Piedade Machado Ramos

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

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