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This study investigates the steady Boltzmann equation in one spatial variable for a polyatomic single-component gas in a half-space. Inflow boundary conditions are assumed at the half-space boundary, where particles entering the half-space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Niclas Bernhoff , Stephane Brull , Eddie Wadbro

Boundary effects play an important role in the study of hydrodynamic limits in the Boltzmann theory. Based on a systematic derivation and study of the viscous layer equations and the $L^2$ to $L^\infty$ framework, we establish the validity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yan Guo , Feimin Huang , Yong Wang

The existence theory for solutions to the Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has primarily been developed within uniformly bounded function classes, such as $L^{\infty}_{x,v}$, as in [Duan-Huang-Wang-Yang,2017], [Duan-Wang,2019],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Dingqun Deng , Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

The initial-boundary value problem for the inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we study the stability and long-time dynamics of the Boltzmann equation near a global Maxwellian without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Dingqun Deng

In the paper, we establish the existence of steady boundary layer solution of Boltzmann equation with specular boundary condition in $L^2_{x,v}\cap L^\infty_{x,v}$ in half-space. The uniqueness, continuity and exponential decay of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Feimin Huang , Zaihong Jiang , Yong Wang

Let rarefied gas be confined in an infinite layer with diffusely reflecting boundaries that are isothermal and non-moving. The initial-boundary value problem on the nonlinear Boltzmann equation governing the rarefied gas flow in such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Junhao Zhang

In this paper, we study the Boltzmann equation in a close to the hydrodynamic limit regime, set in bounded spatial domains with non-isothermal Maxwell boundary conditions. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 R Medina

A basic question about regularity of Boltzmann solutions in the presence of physical boundary conditions has been open due to characteristic nature of the boundary as well as the non-local mixing of the collision operator. Consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Daniela Tonon , Ariane Trescases

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental kinetic equation that describes the dynamics of dilute gas. In this paper we study the regularity of both dynamical and steady Boltzmann equation in strictly convex domain with the Cercignani-Lampis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Hongxu Chen

We derive and implement a suitable boundary condition for the kinetic description of the electrons inside a plasma, which takes into account microphysical processes inside the wall. It is based on the surface scattering kernel, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Felix Willert , Clemens Hoyer , Gordon K. Grubert , Franz X. Bronold

Consider the steady Boltzmann equation with slab symmetry for a monatomic, hard sphere gas in a half space. At the boundary of the half space, it is assumed that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. The present paper discusses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Niclas Bernhoff , François Golse

The relativistic Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been widely used in physics and engineering, for example, Tokamak devices in fusion reactors.In spite of its importance, there has, to the best of our knowledge, been no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Yong Wang , Changguo Xiao

In the paper, assuming that the motion of rarefied gases in a bounded domain is governed by the angular cutoff Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundary, we study the effects of both soft intermolecular interaction and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Renjun Duan , Feimin Huang , Yong Wang , Zhu Zhang

In this paper we revisit the derivation of boundary conditions for the Boltzmann Equation. The interaction between the wall atoms and the gas molecules within a thin surface layer is described by a kinetic equation introduced in [9] and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Stéphane Brull , Pierre Charrier , Luc Mieussens

We consider the nonlinear boundary layers of the Boltzmann equation in a three-dimensional half-space by perturbing around a Maxwellian, under the assumption that the Mach number of the Maxwellian satisfies ${\cal M}_{\infty} < -1$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Shota Sakamoto , Masahiro Suzuki , Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

In the paper, we study the plane Couette flow of a rarefied gas between two parallel infinite plates at $y=\pm L$ moving relative to each other with opposite velocities $(\pm \alpha L,0,0)$ along the $x$-direction. Assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang

This work is concerned with the generation of decay estimates in the velocity variable for solutions of the space-inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without cutoff on a bounded spatial domain for hard and moderately soft potentials. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Cyril Imbert , Amélie Loher

We prove the acoustic limit from the Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisions and the Maxwell reflection boundary condition. Our construction of solutions include the interior fluid part and Knudsen-viscous coupled boundary layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Ning Jiang , Yulong Wu

The formation and propagation of singularities for Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been an important question in numerical studies as well as in theoretical studies. Consider the nonlinear Boltzmann solution near Maxwellians under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Chanwoo Kim

We prove the immediate appearance of an exponential lower bound, uniform in time and space, for continuous mild solutions to the full Boltzmann equation in a $C^2$ convex bounded domain with the physical Maxwellian diffusion boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant