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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

This paper presents enhancement strategies for the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting method based on gradient iterations. The spectral properties are exploited for the parameter estimation, often resulting in a better convergence. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Qinmeng Zou , Frederic Magoules

A lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with enhanced stability and accuracy is presented for various Hermite tensor-based lattice structures. The collision operator relies on a regularization step, which is here improved through a recursive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Christophe Coreixas , Gauthier Wissocq , Guillaume Puigt , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

The accuracy and effectiveness of Hermite spectral methods for the numerical discretization of partial differential equations on unbounded domains, are strongly affected by the amplitude of the Gaussian weight function employed to describe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Lorella Fatone , Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

In this paper, we introduce a bi-fidelity algorithm for velocity discretization of Boltzmann-type kinetic equations under multiple scales. The proposed method employs a simpler and computationally cheaper low-fidelity model to capture a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicolas Crouseilles , Zhen Hao , Liu Liu

We propose a novel and systematic recurrence method for the energy spectra of non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions based on the recurrence relations of their characteristic polynomials. Our formalism exhibits better accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Haoyan Chen , Yi Zhang

The development of accurate and fast numerical schemes for the five fold Boltzmann collision integral represents a challenging problem in scientific computing. For a particular class of interactions, including the so-called hard spheres…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Lorenzo Pareschi

Hermite polynomials and functions have extensive applications in scientific and engineering problems. Although it is recognized that employing the scaled Hermite functions rather than the standard ones can remarkably enhance the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Hao Hu , Haijun Yu

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility of using fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate collisional kinetic equations in kinetic theory. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

This paper introduces and analyzes a preconditioned modified of the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (PMHSS). The large sparse continuous Sylvester equations are solved by PMHSS iterative algorithm based on nonHermitian, complex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Yuye Feng , Qingbiao Wu

In this paper we deal with the extension of the Fast Kinetic Scheme (FKS) [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] originally constructed for solving the BGK equation, to the more challenging case of the Boltzmann equation. The scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Giacomo Dimarco , Raphaël Loubère , Jacek Narski , Thomas Rey

An original spectral study of the compressible hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) on standard lattice is proposed. In this framework, the mass and momentum equations are addressed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), while finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Florian Renard , Gauthier Wissocq , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

By applying the minimal residual technique to the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian (HSS) iteration scheme, we introduce a non-stationary iteration method named minimal residual Hermitian and skew-Hermitian (MRHSS) iteration method to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zeinab Bahramizadeh , Mojtaba Nazari , Mohammad Khorsand Zak , Zahra Yarahmadi

We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jianfeng Lu , Christian B. Mendl

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method to compute linearized collision operators of the Boltzmann equation for variable hard-sphere gases. While the state-of-the-art method provides a computational cost O(MN^4 log N), with N being the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We introduce an efficient stable algorithm for transforms associated with expansions in Hermite functions interpolated at Hermite polynomial roots. The Hermite transform matrix can be factorised into a diagonal component and an orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Marcus Webb , Georg Maierhofer

This work addresses a central challenge in the numerical analysis of the cutoff spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation: the development of rigorously justified, accurate numerical schemes. We present (i) a novel Fourier spectral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yanzhi Gui , Ling-Bing He , Liu Liu

Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexandre Mouton , Thomas Rey