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In microfluidic applications involving high-frequency acoustic waves over a solid boundary, the Stokes boundary-layer thickness $\delta$ is so small that some non-negligible slip may occur at the fluid-solid interface. This paper assesses…
We study the dynamics of a liquid droplet inside a gas over a large range of the Knudsen numbers. The moving liquid droplet is modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, the surrounding rarefied gas by the Boltzmann equation.…
Approximate analytical solution of two dimensional problem for stationary Navier-Stokes, continuity and Fourier-Kirchhoff equations describing free convective heat transfer from isothermal surface of half infinite vertical plate is…
We investigate the diffusion asymptotics of the Boltzmann equation for gaseous mixtures, in the perturbative regime around a local Maxwellian vector whose fluid quantities solve a flux-incompressible Maxwell-Stefan system. Our framework is…
The temperature and pressure jump coefficients at a liquid-vapor interface are calculated from the solution of the Shakhov kinetic model for the linearized Boltzmann equation. Complete and partial evaporation/condensation at the…
The Navier-Stokes equations, are understood as the result of the low-order expansion in powers of dimensionless rate of strain $\eta_{ij}=\tau_{0}S_{ij}$, where $\tau_{0}$ is the microscopic relaxation time of a close-to- thermodynamic…
In this paper, we develop a stability threshold theorem for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the channel, supplemented with the no-slip boundary condition. The initial datum is close to the Couette flow in the following…
Both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids may exhibit complex slip behaviour at the boundary. We examine a broad class of slip boundary conditions that generalises the commonly used Navier slip, perfect slip, stick-slip and Tresca friction…
We consider the hydrodynamic limit of a stationary Boltzmann equation in a unit plate with in-flow boundary. We prove the solution can be approximated in $L^{\infty}$ by the sum of interior solution which satisfies steady incompressible…
We consider a linear phonon Boltzmann equation with a reflecting/transmitting/absorbing interface. This equation appears as the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the energy density function of a harmonic chain of oscillators with inter-particle…
Neither natural nor laboratory laminar flows are perfectly steady. Instead, they are frequently highly unsteady, as illustrated by experimental studies on B\'{e}nard convection. In the paper, we investigate the transition threshold of the…
We consider the steady heat transfer between a collection of impermeable obstacles immersed in an incompressible 2D potential flow, when each obstacle has a prescribed boundary temperature distribution. Inside the fluid, the temperature…
We consider the compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in a half-line and study the time-asymptotic behavior toward the outgoing viscous shock wave. Precisely, we consider the two boundary problems: impermeable wall and inflow…
In this paper, the energy non-conservation problem of the hybrid thermal LB phase change model is emphasized. To solve this problem, an infinite volume discrete scheme is introduced to deal with the diffusion term in the energy equation.…
We study hydrodynamics, heat transfer and entropy generation in pressure-driven microchannel flow of a power-law fluid. Specifically, we address the effect of asymmetry in the slip boundary condition at the channel walls. Constant, uniform…
We establish the incompressible Navier--Stokes limit for the discrete velocity model of the Boltzmann equation in any dimension of the physical space, for densities which remain in a suitable small neighborhood of the global Maxwellian.…
The exterior domain problem is essential in fluid and kinetic equations. In this paper, we establish the validity of the diffusive expansion for the Boltzmann equations to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system up to the critical time in an…
We present an experimental study on steady gravity currents advancing along a heated wall. The current is generated by a mixture of air and carbon dioxide continuously supplied at the channel inlet. To have a complete point-wise…
A velocity boundary condition for the Lattice Boltzmann simulation technique has been proposed recently by Hecht and Harting[arxiv:0811.4593]. This boundary condition is independent of the relaxation process during collision and contains no…
In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation in a close to the hydrodynamic limit regime, set in bounded spatial domains with non-isothermal Maxwell boundary conditions. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of…