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The multi-scale nature of gaseous flows poses tremendous difficulties for theoretical and numerical analysis. The Boltzmann equation, while possessing a wider applicability than hydrodynamic equations, requires significantly more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianbai Xiao , Steffen Schotthöfer , Martin Frank

In the study of gas dynamics, theoretical modeling and numerical simulation are mostly set up with deterministic settings. Given the coarse-grained modeling in theories of fluids, considerable uncertainties may exist between flow-field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Tianbai Xiao

Using the prescription of the nonequilibrium statistical operator method, we derive a non-Markovian generalization to the kinetic theory described by Walser {\sl et al.} [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 59}, 3878 (1999)]. Quasi-particle damping and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 S. G. Bhongale , R. Walser , M. J. Holland

The entropic lattice Boltzmann framework proposed the construction of the discrete equilibrium by taking into consideration minimization of a discrete entropy functional. The effect of this form of the discrete equilibrium on properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-16 S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

In this work I develop a new framework for anisotropic hydrodynamics that generalizes the leading order of the hydrodynamic expansion to the full (3+1)-dimensional anisotropic massive case. Following previous works, my considerations are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-29 Leonardo Tinti

We present a general methodology for constructing lattice Boltzmann models of hydrodynamics with certain desired features of statistical physics and kinetic theory. We show how a methodology of linear programming theory, known as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Boghosian , J. Yepez , P. V. Coveney , A. J. Wagner

An original spectral study of the compressible hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) on standard lattice is proposed. In this framework, the mass and momentum equations are addressed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), while finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Florian Renard , Gauthier Wissocq , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

A novel hybrid algorithm is presented for the Boltzmann-BGK equation, in which a low-rank decomposition is applied solely in the velocity subspace, while a full-rank representation is maintained in the physical (position) space. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Andres Galindo-Olarte , Joseph Nakao , Mirjeta Pasha , Jing-Mei Qiu , William Taitano

This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

The aim of this work is to analyze the entropy, entropy flux and entropy supply rate of granular fluids within the frameworks of the Boltzmann equation and continuum thermodynamics. It is shown that the entropy inequality for a granular gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-17 Gilberto M. Kremer

This paper shows that, in the formal level, the convergence of solutions of Boltzmann equation to solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes system with small Mach number over the three-dimensional periodic domain $\mathbb{T}^3$, using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yuhan Chen , Ning Jiang

We develop a new theoretical framework for describing steady-state quantum transport phenomena, based on the general maximum-entropy principle of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The general form of the many-body density matrix is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bokes , R. W. Godby

We present a detailed description of the essentially entropic lattice Boltzmann model. The entropic lattice Boltzmann model guarantees unconditional numerical stability by iteratively solving the nonlinear entropy evolution equation. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Mohammad Atif , Praveen Kumar Kolluru , Santosh Ansumali

A new transient effective theory of the relativistic Boltzmann equation is derived for locally momentum-anisotropic systems. In the expansion of the distribution function around a local "quasi-equilibrium" state a non-hydrodynamic dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Dennis Bazow , Mauricio Martinez , Ulrich W. Heinz

The paper analyzes the entropy of a system composed by non-interacting and indistinguishable particles whose quantum state numbers are modelled as independent and identically distributed classical random variables. The crucial observation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Arnaldo Spalvieri

We present a new kinetic model and its lattice Boltzmann realization for the simulation of compressible, non-ideal fluid flows. The method employs first-neighbour lattices and introduces a consistent set of correction terms constructed via…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 S. A. Hosseini , M. Feinberg , I. V. Karlin

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

The paper presents a solution to the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the construction of its discrete conservative model. Discrete analogue of the collision integral is presented as a contraction of a tensor, which is independent from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 George Arabuli

Lattice Boltzmann methods are usually derived under the assumption of isotropy. In this work, we present a derivation of a Lattice Boltzmann method for anisotropic fluid flow. Starting from an anisotropic equilibrium distribution, we show a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Benjamin Kellers , Julius Weinmiller , Arnulf Latz , Timo Danner

A kinetic theory of relativistic gases in a two-dimensional space is developed in order to obtain the equilibrium distribution function and the expressions for the fields of energy per particle, pressure, entropy per particle and heat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kremer , F. P. Devecchi