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The Boltzmann equation, an integro-differential equation for the molecular distribution function in the physical and velocity phase space, governs the fluid flow behavior at a wide range of physical conditions, including compressible,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Shashank Jaiswal , Alina A. Alexeenko , Jingwei Hu

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

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

We propose a method for solving statistical mechanics problems defined on sparse graphs. It extracts a small Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) from the sparse graph, converting the sparse system to a much smaller system with many-body and dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 Feng Pan , Pengfei Zhou , Hai-Jun Zhou , Pan Zhang

Event-by-event QCD kinetic theory simulations are hindered by the large numerical cost of evaluating the high-dimensional collision integral in the Boltzmann equation. In this work, we show that a neural network can be used to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Sergio Barrera Cabodevila , Aleksi Kurkela , Florian Lindenbauer

Recently, a new class of semi-Lagrangian methods for the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation has been introduced [8, 17, 18]. These methods work in a satisfactory way either in rarefied or fluid regime. Moreover, because of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Giovanni Russo , Pietro Santagati , Seok-Bae Yun

We study efficient simulation of steady state for rarefied gas flow, which is modeled by the Boltzmann equation with BGK-type collision term. A nonlinear multigrid solver is proposed to resolve the efficiency issue by the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li

Computing sparse redundant representations is an important problem both in applied mathematics and neuroscience. In many applications, this problem must be solved in an energy efficient way. Here, we propose a hybrid distributed algorithm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Tao Hu , Alexander Genkin , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

The ellipsoidal BGK model is a generalized version of the original BGK model designed to reproduce the physical Prandtl number in the Navier-Stokes limit. In this paper, we propose a new implicit semi-Lagrangian scheme for the ellipsoidal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

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

In this work we explore the possibility of learning from data collision operators for the Lattice Boltzmann Method using a deep learning approach. We compare a hierarchy of designs of the neural network (NN) collision operator and evaluate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Alessandro Corbetta , Alessandro Gabbana , Vitaliy Gyrya , Daniel Livescu , Joost Prins , Federico Toschi

In this paper, we propose a new semi-Lagrangian scheme for the polyatomic ellipsoidal BGK model. In order to avoid time step restrictions coming from convection term and small Knudsen number, we combine a semi-Lagrangian approach for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung-Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

We use deep sparsely connected neural networks to measure the complexity of a function class in $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$ by restricting connectivity and memory requirement for storing the neural networks. We also introduce representation system -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Khay Boon Hong

We devise a lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for a matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation, with the classical Maxwell distribution replaced by Fermi-Dirac functions. To accommodate the spin density matrix, the distribution functions become…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Christian B. Mendl

The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom and the wide range of both spatial and temporal scales render…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Anthony Chang , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi

In this paper, we propose an efficient, high order accurate and asymptotic-preserving (AP) semi-Lagrangian (SL) method for the BGK model with constant or spatially dependent Knudsen number. The spatial discretization is performed by a mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Mingchang Ding , Jing-Mei Qiu , Ruiwen Shu

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

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

We consider the Boltzmann equation with random uncertainties arising from the initial data and collision kernel in the {\it whole space}, along with their stochastic Galerkin (SG) approximations. By employing Green's function method, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Shi Jin , Qi Shao , Haitao Wang

We introduce two novel interpolatory dynamical low-rank (DLR) approximation methods for the efficient time integration of the Boltzmann-BGK equation. Both methods overcome limitations of classic DLR schemes based on orthogonal projections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Alec Dektor , Lukas Einkemmer