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The local balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of a dilute gas of elastic or inelastic hard spheres, strongly confined between two parallel hard plates are obtained. The starting point is a Boltzmann-like kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

Many features of granular media can be modelled as a fluid of hard spheres with {\em inelastic} collisions. Under rapid flow conditions, the macroscopic behavior of grains can be described through hydrodynamic equations. At low-density, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vicente Garzo

In this paper, we examine how to build coarse-grain transport models consistently from the kinetic to fluid regimes. The internal energy of the gas particles is described through a state-to-state approach. A kinetic equation allows us to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-15 Erik Torres , Georgios Bellas-Chatzigeorgis , Thierry E. Magin

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was initially designed to address multiscale challenges in rarefied gas dynamics and then extended to radiative transfert theory, as described by BGK like relaxation models. In this work, we extend its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Nicolas Crouseilles

The kinetic theory of gases, including Granular Gases, is based on the Boltzmann equation. Many properties of the gas, from the characteristics of the velocity distribution function to the transport coefficients may be expressed in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Thorsten Poeschel , Nikolai V. Brilliantov

In the hydrodynamic regime, the evolution of a stochastic lattice gas with symmetric hopping rules is described by a diffusion equation with density-dependent diffusion coefficient encapsulating all microscopic details of the dynamics. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-23 Chikashi Arita , P L Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

In this work, we employ a kinetic theory based approach to predict the hydrodynamic forces on electromechanical resonators operating in gaseous media. Using the Boltzmann-BGK equation, we investigate the influence of the resonator geometry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Carlos Colosqui , Devrez M. Karabacak , Kamil L. Ekinci , Victor Yakhot

Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Demei Li , Zhongyi He , Huilin Lai , Yanbiao Gan , Hailong Liu , Pengfei Lin

We consider a kinetic model for a two component gas mixture without chemical reactions. Our goal is to study hypocoercivity for the linearized BGK model for gas mixtures in continuous phase space. By constructing an entropy functional, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Liu Liu , Marlies Pirner

In this work, we present a positivity-preserving high-order flux reconstruction method for the polyatomic Boltzmann--BGK equation augmented with a discrete velocity model that ensures the scheme is discretely conservative. Through modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden , Luigi Martinelli

Small perturbations of the homogeneous cooling state (HCS) for a low density granular gas are described by means of the linearized Boltzmann equation. The spectrum of the generator for this dynamics is shown to contain points corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Javier Brey , J. W. Dufty

We study the entropy production estimate for the polyatomic ellipsoidal BGK model, which is a relaxation type kinetic model describing the time evolution of polyatomic particle systems. An interesting dichotomy is observed between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Sa Jun Park , Seok-Bae Yun

The discrete effect on the boundary condition has been a fundamental topic for the lattice Boltzmann method in simulating heat and mass transfer problems. In previous works based on the halfway anti-bounce-back (ABB) boundary condition for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Liang Wang , Xuhui Meng , Hao-Chi Wu , Tian-Hu Wang , Gui Lu

The Boltzmann equation with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision operator is considered for the Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac equilibrium distribution functions. We show that the expansion of the microscopic velocity in terms of Hermite…

In this article, we extend the Boltzmann framework for polyatomic gases by introducing quasi-resonant kernels, which relax resonant interactions, for which kinetic and internal energies are separately conserved and lead to equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Thomas Borsoni , Laurent Boudin , Julien Mathiaud , Francesco Salvarani

We study the Bathnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation in a smooth bounded domain featuring a diffusive reflection boundary condition with general collision frequency. We prove that the BGK equation admits a unique global solution with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Hongxu Chen , Christian Klingenberg , Marlies Pirner

We have computed the charge and heat transport coefficients of hot QCD matter by solving the relativistic Boltzmann transport equation using the BGK model approximation with a modified collision integral in the weak magnetic field regime.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-28 Anowar Shaikh , Shubhalaxmi Rath , Sadhana Dash , Binata Panda

Gas-radiation coupling critically influences hypersonic reentry flows, where extreme temperatures induce pronounced non-equilibrium gas and radiative heat transport. Accurate and efficient simulation of radiative gas dynamics is therefore…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jianan Zeng , Qi Li , Yanbing Zhang , Wei Su , Lei Wu

We propose two models of the Boltzmann equation (BGK and Fokker-Planck models) for rarefied flows of thermally perfect gases. These models take into account various models of energy, which are required for high temperature flows, like for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 J. Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens

The velocity distribution function of the steady-state Boltzmann equation for hard-core molecules in the presence of a temperature gradient has been obtained explicitly to second order in density and the temperature gradient. Some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kim Hyeon-Deuk , Hisao Hayakawa
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