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This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Gabriella Puppo

Precise neutrino energy reconstruction is essential for next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments, yet current methods remain limited by large uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling. Even so, it is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Daniel C. Hackett , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado , Karla Tame-Narvaez

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model as well as its extensions (ellipsoidal statistical BGK, Shakhov BGK, unified BGK) are used in particle-based fluid dynamics and compared with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 M. Pfeiffer

We present a formulation of the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) which govern the evolution of neutrino flavor at high density and temperature. Here, the QKEs are derived from the ground up, using fundamental neutrino interactions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Alexey Vlasenko , George M. Fuller , Vincenzo Cirigliano

We present the first two-dimensional general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse and explosion with the CoCoNuT hydrodynamics code in combination with the VERTEX solver for energy-dependent, three-flavor neutrino…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Mueller , H. -Th. Janka , A. Marek

Neutrino gases are expected to form in high density astrophysical environments, and accurately modeling their flavor evolution is critical to understanding such environments. In this work we study a simplified model of such a dense neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Joshua D. Martin , Duff Neill , A. Roggero , Huaiyu Duan , J. Carlson

The present experimental situation regarding neutrino oscillations is first summarized, followed by an overview of selected grand unified models which have been proposed to explain the various scenarios with three active neutrinos and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl H. Albright

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method based on the gas dynamical model on the mesh size and time step scales. With the implementation of particle transport and collision in a time-dependent flux function, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

We investigate collective flavor oscillations of supernova neutrinos at late stages of the explosion. We first show that the frequently used single-angle (averaged coupling) approximation predicts oscillations close to, or perhaps even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-21 Huaiyu Duan , Alexander Friedland

Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

Higher-dimensional models of neutrino physics with one or more right-handed neutrinos in the bulk have attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, a critical issue for such models is to find a way of introducing the required…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Keith R. Dienes , Sabine Hossenfelder

We compare gravitational-wave (GW) signals from eight three-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae, using two different progenitors with zero-age main sequence masses of 9 and 20 solar masses. The collapse of each progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-13 Haakon Andresen , Robert Glas , H-Thomas Janka

We have studied the charge and the heat transport properties of a hot and dense QCD matter by solving the relativistic Boltzmann transport equation using a novel approximation method. Following the recently developed novel relaxation time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Anowar Shaikh , Shubhalaxmi Rath , Sadhana Dash , Binata Panda

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

One of the major difficulties encountered in modeling core collapse supernovae is obtaining an accurate description of the transport of neutrinos through the collapsed stellar core. The behavior of the neutrino distribution function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Douglas Swesty

Simulating hypersonic flow around a space vehicle is challenging because of the multiscale and nonequilibrium nature inherent in these flows. To effectively deal with such flows, a novel particle particle hybrid scheme combining the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Fei Fei , Yuan Hu , Patrick Jenny

Based on the Kompaneets approximation, we develop a robust methodology to calculate spectral redistribution via inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering in the context of core-collapse supernova simulations. The resulting equations conserve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-26 Tianshu Wang , Adam Burrows

Unlike the case for classical particles, the literature on BGK type models for relativistic gas mixture is extremely limited. There are a few results %\cite{Kremer,Kremer3,KP} in which such relativistic BGK models for gas mixture are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Byung-Hoon Hwang , Myeong-Su Lee , Seok-Bae Yun

A new framework is introduced for constructing interpretable and truly reliable reduced models for multiscale problems in situations without scale separation. Hydrodynamic approximation to the kinetic equation is used as an example to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Jiequn Han , Chao Ma , Zheng Ma , Weinan E

We simulate the time evolution of collective neutrino oscillations in two-flavor settings on a quantum computer. We explore the generalization of Trotter-Suzuki approximation to time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics. The trotterization steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Pooja Siwach , Kaytlin Harrison , A. Baha Balantekin