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An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

This is the first one of two papers on the global dynamics of the original Boltzmann equations without angular cutoff on the torus. We address the problem for the hard potentials and Maxwellian molecules in the present paper. The case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Ling-Bing He , Jin-Cheng Jiang

In this paper we provide a rigorous derivation of the inelastic linear Boltzmann equation, in the Boltzmann-Grad limit, from a dissipative, random, Lorentz gas in arbitrary dimensions d $\geq$ 2. Specifically, we consider a microscopic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Théophile Dolmaire , Alessia Nota

A new coercivity estimate on the spectral gap of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator for multiple species is proved. The assumptions on the collision kernels include hard and Maxwellian potentials under Grad's angular cut-off…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Esther Sarah Daus , Ansgar Jüngel , Clément Mouhot , Nicola Zamponi

Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

We examine the two-dimensional Euler equations including the local energy (in)equality as a differential inclusion and show that the associated relaxation essentially reduces to the known relaxation for the Euler equations considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán

In a continuum model of the solvation of charged molecules in an aqueous solvent, the classical Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is generalized to include the solute point charges and the dielectric boundary that separates the high-dielectric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Bo Li , Zhengfang Zhang , Shenggao Zhou

Collisional effects are included in the path-integral formulation that was proposed in one of our previous paper for the collisionless Boltzmann gas. In calculating the number of molecules entering a six-dimensional phase volume element due…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

In this paper, we get the quantitative space-time behavior of the full Boltzmann equation with soft potentials ($-2<\gamma <0$) in the close to equilibrium setting, under some velocity decay assumption, but without any Sobolev regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Yu-Chu Lin , Ming-Jiea Lyu , Haitao Wang , Kung-Chien Wu

This paper aims to incorporate the Caflisch's decomposition into the macro-micro decomposition in Boltzmann theory for allowing the microscopic component to exhibit only the polynomial tail in large velocities. In particular, we treat the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

The paper proves existence of mild solutions to normal discrete velocity Boltzmann equations sin the plane with no pair of colinear interacting velocities, and given ingoing boundary values. A key property is L1 compactness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Leif Arkeryd , Anne Nouri

This work proves the global stability of the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse-power intermolecular potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$, for initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

In this paper, we address the local well-posedness of the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation when the initial data decays polynomially in the velocity variable. We consider the case of very soft potentials $\gamma + 2s <…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Christopher Henderson , Weinan Wang

The conditions for the existence of the Chapman-Enskog first-order solution to the Boltzmann equation for a dilute gas are examined from two points of view. The traditional procedure is contrasted with a somehow more formal approach based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 A. L. García-Perciante , A. R. Méndez , O. Sarbach

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental equation in kinetic theory that describes the motion of rarefied gases. In this study, we examine the Boltzmann equation within a $C^1$ bounded domain, subject to a large external potential $\Phi(x)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

We prove the global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions around an equilibrium to the Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff in some Sobolev spaces. In addition, the solutions thus obtained are shown to be non-negative and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Y. Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

In this paper we prove the global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Bose-Einstein particles for the hard sphere model for bounded anisotropic initial data. The main idea of our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Wenyi Li , Xuguang Lu

This paper is devoted to the well-posedness theory of piston problem for compressible {combustion} Euler flows with physical ignition condition. A significant combustion phenomena called detonation will occur provided the reactant is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Kai Hu , Jie Kuang

The linear Boltzmann equation describes the macroscopic transport of a gas of non-interacting point particles in low-density matter. It has wide-ranging applications, including neutron transport, radiative transfer, semiconductors and ocean…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strömbergsson

This work is concerned with the generation of decay estimates in the velocity variable for solutions of the space-inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without cutoff on a bounded spatial domain for hard and moderately soft potentials. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Cyril Imbert , Amélie Loher