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We analyze the deviations from Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics found in recent experiments studying velocity distributions in two-dimensional granular gases driven into a non-equilibrium stationary state by a strong vertical vibration. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Barrat , Emmanuel Trizac

We investigate velocity statistics of homogeneous inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. Employing an approximate uniform collision rate, we obtain analytic results valid in arbitrary dimension. In the freely evolving case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

In this paper we continue the study of the derivation of different types of kinetic equations which arise from scaling limits of interacting particle systems. We began this study in \cite{NVW}. More precisely, we consider the derivation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez , Raphael Winter

The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garz\'o, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-07 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

Considering galaxies as self - gravitating systems of many collisionless particles allows to use methods of statistical mechanics inferring the distribution function of these stellar systems. Actually, the long range nature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 V. F. Cardone , M. P. Leubner , A. Del Popolo

The hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional gas of smooth inelastic hard spheres are derived from the Boltzmann equation for the model, using a generalization of the Chapman-Enskog method. The heat and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Javier Brey , V. Buzón , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

We derive new diffusion solutions to the monoenergetic generalized linear Boltzmann transport equation (GLBE) for the stationary collision density and scalar flux about an isotropic point source in an infinite $d$-dimensional absorbing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Eugene d'Eon

The transport coefficients for a gas of smooth, inelastic hard spheres are obtained from the Boltzmann equation in the form of Green-Kubo relations. The associated time correlation functions are not simply those constructed from the fluxes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey

Many mathematical models for biological phenomena, such as the spread of diseases, are based on reaction-diffusion equations for densities of interacting cell populations. We present a consistent derivation of reaction-diffusion equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Marzia Bisi , Davide Cusseddu , Ana Jacinta Soares , Romina Travaglini

We consider a class of nonlinear, spatially inhomogeneous kinetic equations of BGK-type with density dependent collision rates. These equations share the same superlinearity as the Boltzmann equation, and fall into the class of run and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Josephine Evans , Daniel Morris , Havva Yoldaş

We introduce a gradient flow formulation of linear Boltzmann equations. Under a diffusive scaling we derive a diffusion equation by using the machinery of gradient flows.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini

Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the diffusion behavior of penetrable-sphere model fluids characterized by a finite energy barrier $\epsilon$. The self-diffusion coefficient is evaluated from the time-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Soong-Hyuck Suh , Chun-Ho Kim , Soon-Chul Kim , Andrés Santos

The semiclassical Boltzmann equation is widely used to study transport effects. However, being semiclassical and borrowing heavily from classical mechanics, the formalism calls for verification from the perspective of quantum mechanics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Da Ma , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

A formally exact relation is derived which connects thermodynamically non-equilibrium evolution of gas density distribution after its arbitrary strong spatially non-uniform perturbation and evolution of many-particle correlations between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We investigate in this article the long-time behaviour of the solutions to the energy-dependant, spatially-homogeneous, inelastic Boltzmann equation for hard spheres. This model describes a diluted gas composed of hard spheres under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Thomas Rey

A quasiparticle description of various condensed media is a very popular tool in study of their transport and thermodynamic properties. I present here a microscopic theory for the description of diffusion processes in two-component gas of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander V. Zhukov

We provide a rigorous derivation of Boltzmann's kinetic equation from the hard sphere system for rarefied gas, which is valid for arbitrarily long times, as long as the solution to the Boltzmann equation exists. This extends Lanford's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani , Xiao Ma

Quasiparticle dynamics in relativistic plasmas associated with hot, weakly-coupled gauge theories (such as QCD at asymptotically high temperature $T$) can be described by an effective kinetic theory, valid on sufficiently large time and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 Peter Arnold , Guy D. Moore , Laurence G. Yaffe

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

We present a derivation of the mechanics of isothermal gas spheres directly from the Vlasov--Poisson equation. By extremising the Boltzmann entropy, we obtain the Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution for a self-gravitating isothermal Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Steven D Miller