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We prove uniqueness of self-similar profiles for the one-dimensional inelastic Boltzmann equation with moderately hard potentials, that is with collision kernel of the form | $\bullet$ | $\gamma$ for $\gamma$ > 0 small enough (explicitly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Ricardo J. Alonso , Véronique Bagland , José A. Cañizo , Bertrand Lods , Sebastian Throm

The linearized model collision operator for multiple species plasmas given by H. Sugama, T.-H. Watanabe, and M. Nunami [Phys.\ Plasmas {\bf 16}, 112503 (2009)] is improved to be properly applicable up to the highly collisional regime. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hideo Sugama , Seikichi Matsuoka , Shinsuke Satake , Masanori Nunami , Tomohiko Watanabe

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

We consider the existence of steady rarefied flows of polyatomic gas between two parallel condensed phases, where evaporation and condensation processes occur. To this end, we study the existence problem of stationary solutions in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ki-Nam Hong , Marwa Shahine , Seok-Bae Yun

Coulomb collisions in plasmas are typically modeled using the Boltzmann collision operator, or its variants, which apply to weakly magnetized plasmas in which the typical gyroradius of particles significantly exceeds the Debye length.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Louis Jose , Scott D. Baalrud

We provide a linear analysis on normal modes of the spin Boltzmann equation proposed in \cite{Weickgenannt:2021cuo}, where the non-diagonal or polarized part of the transition rate is neglected to ensure the Hermitian property of linearized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jin Hu

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

A general framework for the kinetic modelling of non-relativistic polyatomic gases is proposed,where each particle is characterized both by its velocity and by its internal state, and the Boltzmann collisionoperator involves suitably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Thomas Borsoni , Marzia Bisi , Maria Groppi

For charged particle transport the linear Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) turns out to be a partial hyper-singular integro-differential operator. This is due to the fact that the related differential cross-sections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Jouko Tervo

We consider the kinetic theory of a three-dimensional fluid of weakly interacting bosons in a non-equilibrium state which includes both normal fluid and a condensate. More precisely, we look at the previously postulated nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Jogia Bandyopadhyay , Jani Lukkarinen

We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We consider the effect of non-reciprocity in a binary mixture of self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions, where a particle of type A reacts differently to a particle of type B than vice versa. Starting from a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jakob Mihatsch , Thomas Ihle

We consider an inverse problem for the Boltzmann equation with nonlinear collision operator in dimensions $n\geq 2$. We show that the kinetic collision kernel can be uniquely determined from the incoming-to-outgoing mappings on the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Ru-Yu Lai , Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Yang

With the existence and uniqueness of a vector value solution for the full non-linear homogeneous Boltzmann system of equations describing multi-component monatomic gas mixtures for binary interactions proved [8], we present in this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Erica de la Canal , Irene M. Gamba , Milana Pavić-Čolić

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

A linear Boltzmann equation with nonautonomous collision operator is rigorously derived in the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the deterministic dynamics of a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Karsten Matthies , George Stone

This paper reviews results on the scalar Boltzmann equation for a single-component polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy. For the space homogeneous problem, $L^1$-theory is established, for solutions with initial strictly positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Colic

In this article, we extend the result of Boltzmann on characterisation of collision invariants from the case of hard disks to a class of two-dimensional compact, strictly-convex particles.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Laure Saint-Raymond , Mark Wilkinson

We study integrability properties of a general version of the Boltzmann collision operator for hard and soft potentials in $n$-dimensions. A reformulation of the collisional integrals allows us to write the weak form of the collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Ricardo J. Alonso , Emanuel Carneiro , Irene M. Gamba

We consider the long time evolution of a quantum particle weakly interacting with a phonon field. We show that in the weak coupling limit the Wigner distribution of the electron density matrix converges to the solution of the linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Laszlo Erdos