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A general derivation is proposed for several boundary conditions arisen in the lattice Boltzmann simulations of various physical problems. Pair-wise moment conservations are proposed to enforce the boundary conditions with given macroscopic…

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Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

Two finite element approximations of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymeric fluids are considered, in bounded 2- and 3-dimensional domains, under no flow boundary conditions. The pressure and the symmetric conformation tensor are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 John W. Barrett , Sebastien Boyaval

In the present work the classical problem of the kinetic theory of gases (the Smoluchowsky' problem about temperature jump in rarefied gas) is considered. The rarefied gas fills half-space over a flat firm surface. logarithmic gradient of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 A. V. Latyshev

We propose a new way to implement Dirichlet boundary conditions for complex shapes using data from a single node only, in the context of the lattice Boltzmann method. The resulting novel method exhibits second-order convergence for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Francesco Marson , Yann Thorimbert , Jonas Latt , Bastien Chopard

We identify the stochastic processes associated with one-sided fractional partial differential equations on a bounded domain with various boundary conditions. This is essential for modelling using spatial fractional derivatives. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Boris Baeumer , Mihály Kovács , Harish Sankaranarayanan

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness theory for the MHD boundary layer system in two-dimensional space. The boundary layer equations are governed by the Prandtl type equations that are derived from the full incompressible MHD…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Jincheng Gao , Boling Guo , Daiwen Huang

In this paper, we present a systematic stability analysis of the quadrature-based moment method (QBMM) for the one-dimensional Boltzmann equation with BGK or Shakhov models. As reported in recent literature, the method has revealed its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Qian Huang , Shuiqing Li , Wen-An Yong

We study the Fokker-Planck equation derived in the large system limit of the Markovian process describing the dynamics of quantitative traits. The Fokker-Planck equation is posed on a bounded domain and its transport and diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Katarina Bodova , Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich

We develop a new method for proving hypocoercivity for a large class of linear kinetic equations with only one conservation law. Local mass conservation is assumed at the level of the collision kernel, while transport involves a confining…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-11 Jean Dolbeault , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

Simulations of large-scale plasma systems are typically based on a fluid approximation approach. These models construct a moment-based system of equations that approximate the particle-based physics as a fluid, but as a result lack the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Brecht Laperre , Jorge Amaya , Sara Jamal , Giovanni Lapenta

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, a simplification of the Boltzmann equation, in the absence of boundary effect, converges to the Euler equations when the Knudsen number is small. In practice, however, Knudsen layers emerge at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Hongxu Chen , Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu

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 present a data-driven approach to construct entropy-based closures for the moment system from kinetic equations. The proposed closure learns the entropy function by fitting the map between the moments and the entropy of the moment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 William A. Porteous , M. Paul Laiu , Cory D. Hauck

Modeling rarefied hypersonic flows remains a fundamental challenge due to the breakdown of classical continuum assumptions in the transition-continuum regime, where the Knudsen number ranges from approximately 0.1 to 10. Conventional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ashish S. Nair , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi , Justin Sirignano , Jonathan F. MacArt

We study linear closure relations for the moments' method applied to simple kinetic equations. The equations are linear collisional models (velocity jump processes) which are well suited to this type of approximation. In this simplified, 1…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-22 Yves Bourgault , Damien Broizat , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

We prove global stability results of {\sl DiPerna-Lions} renormalized solutions for the initial boundary value problem associated to some kinetic equations, from which existence results classically follow. The (possibly nonlinear) boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-29 Stéphane Mischler

We study transverse magnetic (vector valued) wave-packets in the time dependent Kerr nonlinear Maxwell's equations at the interface of two inhomogeneous dielectrics with an instantaneous material response. The resulting model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Tomáš Dohnal , Roland Schnaubelt , Daniel P. Tietz

Using the quasi-Maxwell formalism, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the matching of two stationary spacetimes along a stationary timelike hypersurface, expressed in terms of the gravitational and gravitomagnetic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-09 Filipe C. Mena , Jose Natario

We study half-space linear kinetic equations with general boundary conditions that consist of both given incoming data and various type of reflections, extending our previous work [LLS14] on half-space equations with incoming boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun