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We study the linearized kinetic equation of relaxation model which was proposed by Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook (also called BGK model) and solve the dispersion relation. Using the solution of the dispersion relation, we analyze the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Makoto Takamoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) model is a relaxation-type model of the Boltzmann equation, which is popularly used in place of the Boltzmann equation in physics and engineering. In this paper, we address the ill-posedness problem for the BGK…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Donghyun Lee , Sungbin Park , Seok-Bae Yun

A non-perturbative analysis of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model kinetic equation for finite values of the Knudsen number is presented. This analysis indicates why discrete kinetic versions of the BGK equation, and notably the Lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mauro Sbragaglia , Sauro Succi

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

Kinetic models based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) framework provide an efficient alternative to the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gas flows; however, existing formulations for gas mixtures remain limited in representing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Inchan Kim , Joonbeom Kim , Woonghwi Park , Eunji Jun

In this article we focus on kinetic equations for gas mixtures since in applications one often has to deal with mixtures instead of a single gas. In particular we consider an approximation of the Boltzmann equation, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Marlies Pirner , Sandra Warnecke

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

A generalization of the lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model for the simulation of hydrodynamics is presented, which takes into account the difference and the frame-independence of the relaxation of non-hydrodynamic modes. The present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 I. V. Karlin , D. Lycett-Brown , K. H. Luo

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) single-relaxation-time collision model for the Boltzmann equation serves as the foundation of the lattice BGK (LBGK) method developed in recent years. The description of the collision as a uniform relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Xiaowen Shan , Yangyang Shi , Xuhui Li

The Boltzmann equation describes the detailed microscopic behaviour of a dilute gas, and represents the basis of the kinetic theory of gases. In order to reduce the difficulties in solving the Boltzmann equation, simple expressions of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Armando Majorana

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) Boltzmann equation with the Maxwellian-Boltzmann-type equilibrium state leads to the set of thermo-hydrodynamic equations such as the continuity, the Navier-Stokes, and the heat-transfer equations in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-05 Hiroshi Otomo

In this work, we first develop a unified Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook lattice Boltzmann (BGK-LB) model for the $d$($d\geq 1$)-dimensional linear hyperbolic equation (L-HE), where the natural moments and the D$d$Q$(2d^2+1)$ [($2d^2+1$) discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Ying Chen , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We study spatially non-homogeneous kinetic models for vehicular traffic flow. Classical formulations, as for instance the BGK equation, lead to unconditionally unstable solutions in the congested regime of traffic. We address this issue by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-22 Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo , Sebastiano Roncoroni , Giuseppe Visconti

A thermal lattice Boltzmann model is constructed on the basis of the ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ES-BGK) collision operator via the Hermite moment representation. The resulting lattice ES-BGK model uses a single…

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Félix Garmirian , Marcel Pfeiffer

We study the stability and sensitivity of an absorbing layer for the Boltzmann equation by examining the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) approximation and using the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique. To ensure stability, we discard some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Marco Sutti , Jan S. Hesthaven

The Boltzmann collision operator for a dilute granular gas of inelastic rough hard spheres is much more intricate than its counterpart for inelastic smooth spheres. Now the one-body distribution function depends not only on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Andrés Santos

Solving the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation with a stochastic particle approach enables efficient and flexible simulations of flows in the transition regime, between continuum and free molecular flow. However, the usual first-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Marcel Pfeiffer , Félix Garmirian , Tobias Ott

A novel discretization approach for the Bhatnager-Gross-Krook (BGK) kinetic equation is proposed. An hierarchy of LB models starting from $D1Q3$ model with increasing number of velocities converging to BGK model is derived. The method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Oleg Ilyin

The lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model has become the most popular one in the lattice Boltzmann method for simulating the convection heat transfer in porous media. However, the LBGK model generally suffers from numerical instability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Liang Wang , Jianchun Mi , Zhaoli Guo
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