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This letter presents a kinetic closure of the filtered Boltzmann--BGK equation, paving the way toward an alternative description of turbulence. The closure retains the turbulent subfilter stress tensor without a separate Smagorinsky-type…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Francesco Marson , Orestis Malaspinas

Recently the general form of a translation-covariant quantum Boltzmann equation has been derived which describes the dynamics of a tracer particle in a quantum gas. We develop a stochastic wave function algorithm that enables full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-24 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

Multiphase flows with high density ratios, such as water and air flows, have recently been simulated using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. This approach corresponds to solving the phase field equations, such as the Cahn-Hilliard and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Otomo , C. Sun , T. Inamuro , W. Li , M. Dressler , H. Chen , Y. Li , R. Zhang

This work is aimed to develop a new class of methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation. This technique allows to get high order of accuracy both in space and time, theoretically without CFL stability limitation. It's based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Pietro Santagati , Giovanni Russo

We consider the socalled Bathnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, an approximation of the Boltzmann equation, describing the time evolution of a single momoatomic rarefied gas and satisfying the same two main properties (conservation properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Marlies Pirner

Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Vienna B. Rossmanith

Hydrodynamic theories offer successful approaches that are capable of simulating the otherwise difficult-to-compute dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In this work we derive, within the positive-P phase-space formalism, a new stochastic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-21 S. A. Simmons , J. C. Pillay , K. V. Kheruntsyan

Despite a long record of intense efforts, the basic mechanisms by which dissipation emerges from the microscopic dynamics of a relativistic fluid still elude a complete understanding. In particular, no unique pathway from kinetic theory to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 A. Gabbana , M. Mendoza , S. Succi , R. Tripiccione

In plasma edge simulations, the behavior of neutral particles is often described by a Boltzmann--BGK equation. Solving this kinetic equation and estimating the moments of its solution are essential tasks, typically carried out using Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zhirui Tang , Julian Koellermeier , Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey

Boltzmann introduced in the 1870's a logarithmic measure for the connection between the thermodynamical entropy and the probabilities of the microscopic configurations of the system. His entropic functional for classical systems was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-19 Constantino Tsallis

In the present paper, a new model of the collision term, of the Boltzmann Kinetic equation dealing with binary gas mixture affected by a centrifugal field, is introduced. The new model is representing a modification of the BGK…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-28 Taha Zakaraia Abdel Wahid

In this paper, we study a general class of inhomogeneous kinetic models that unifies fundamental models in both the statistical physics of particles and of waves, namely the kinetic Boltzmann equations and the kinetic wave equations, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Manh Hong Duong , Zihui He

One of the central challenges in kinetic theory is the derivation of macroscopic evolution equations--describing, for example, the dynamics of an electron gas--from the underlying fundamental microscopic laws of classical or quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jens Marklof

We propose fully explicit projective integration and telescopic projective integration schemes for the multispecies Boltzmann and Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equations. The methods employ a sequence of small forward-Euler steps,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Rafael Bailo , Thomas Rey

The impressive progress of the kinetic schemes in the solution of gas dynamics problems and the development of effective parallel algorithms for modern high performance parallel computing systems led to the development of advanced methods…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 B. Chetverushkin , N. D'Ascenzo , V. Saveliev

Stochastic kinetic models (SKMs) are increasingly used to account for the inherent stochasticity exhibited by interacting populations of species in areas such as epidemiology, population ecology and systems biology. Species numbers are…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-06 Tom E. Lowe , Andrew Golightly , Chris Sherlock

Abstracet: We present a new thermal lattice BGK model in D-dimensional space for the numerical calculation of fluid dynamics. This model uses a higher order expansion of equilibrium distribution in Maxwellian type. In the mean time the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu Chen , Hirotada Ohashi , Mamoru Akiyama

Two discretizations of a 9-velocity Boltzmann equation with a BGK collision operator are studied. A Chapman-Enskog expansion of the PDE system predicts that the macroscopic behavior corresponds to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Marc B. Reider , James D. Sterling

Recently, a hydrodynamic description of local equilibrium dynamics in quantum integrable systems was discovered. In the diffusionless limit, this is equivalent to a certain "Bethe-Boltzmann" kinetic equation, which has the form of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-10 Vir B. Bulchandani