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We construct bounded classical solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the whole space without specifying any limit behaviors at the spatial infinity and without assuming the smallness condition on initial data. More precisely, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

We consider the Boltzmann equation in convex domain with non-isothermal boundary of diffuse reflection. For both unsteady/steady problems, we construct solutions belong to $W^{1,p}_x$ for any $p<3$. We prove that the unsteady solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Hongxu Chen , Chanwoo Kim

We consider a class of nonlinear Boltzmann equations describing return to thermal equilibrium in a gas of colliding particles suspended in a thermal medium. We study solutions in the space $L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3}\times \mathbb{T}^3).$ Special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Juerg Froehlich , Zhou Gang

In this paper, convergence results on the solutions of a time and space discrete model approximation of the Boltzmann equation for a gas of Maxwellian particles in a bounded domain, obtained by Babovsky and Illner [1989], are extended to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-30 C. P. Grünfeld , D. Marinescu

For multispecies ions, we study boundary layer solutions of charge conserving Poisson-Boltzmann (CCPB) equations [50] (with a small parameter \k{o}) over a finite one-dimensional (1D) spatial domain, subjected to Robin type boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Chiun-Chang Lee , Hijin Lee , YunKyong Hyon , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in a compact domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions. We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres of diameter $\epsilon$ in a box $\Lambda := [0, 1] \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Corentin Le Bihan

We show that arbitrary homeomorphic solutions to the Beltrami equations with generalized derivatives satisfy certain moduli inequalities. On this basis, we develope the theory of the boundary behavior of such solutions and prove a series of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Denis Kovtonyuk , Igor Petkov , Vladimir Ryazanov , Ruslan Salimov

We prove a uniqueness theorem for an inverse boundary value problem for the Maxwell system with boundary data assumed known only in part of the bound- ary. We assume that the inaccessible part of the boundary is either part of a plane, or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Pedro Caro , Petri Ola , Mikko Salo

We investigate the Boltzmann equation with spatial smearing, diffusive boundary conditions, and Lions' collision kernel. Both, the physical as well as the velocity space, are assumed to be bounded. Existence and uniqueness of a stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

We start with some global Maxwellian function $M$, which is a stationary solution (with the constant total density $\rho$) of the Boltzmann equation, and we denote the number of the corresponding space variables by $n$. The notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Lev Sakhnovich

In the paper, we develop spectral theory to analyze the sharp asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Boltzmann equation around global Maxwellians in a three-dimensional infinite layer $\mathbb{R}^2\times (-1,1)$. The isothermal diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

We obtain the existence, uniqueness and regularity results for solutions to kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with bounded measurable coefficients in the presence of boundary conditions, including the inflow, diffuse reflection and specular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yuzhe Zhu

In this article, we investigate the incoming boundary value problem for the stationary linearized Boltzmann equations in $ \Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{3}$. For a $C^2$ bounded domain with boundary of positive Gaussian curvature, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-19 I-Kun Chen , Ping-Han Chuang , Chun-Hsiung Hsia , Daisuke Kawagoe , Jhe-Kuan Su

In classical treatment of Maxwell equations, the initial and boundary conditions are introduced by mathematical consideration rather than strictly using the Maxwell equations. As a result, the initial and boundary conditions are not logic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianhua Xiao

We prove the existence and exponential decay of global in time strong solutions to the Boltzmann equation without any angular cut-off, i.e., for long-range interactions. We consider perturbations of the Maxwellian equilibrium states and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

Consider 3D Boltzmann equation in convex domains with diffusive-reflection boundary condition. We study the hydrodynamic limits as the Knudsen number and Strouhal number $\epsilon\rightarrow 0^+$. Using the Hilbert expansion, we rigorously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Lei Wu , Zhimeng Ouyang

While weak diffusive limit from the Boltzmann equation to the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system was established for the Maxwell boundary condition within renormalized solutions framework [Saint.Raymond2009][Jiang-Masmoudi2017],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yan Guo , Junhwa Jung , Fujun Zhou

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

The Boltzmann H-theorem implies that the solution to the Boltzmann equation tends to an equilibrium, that is, a Maxwellian when time tends to infinity. This has been proved in varies settings when the initial energy is finite. However, when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Yoshinori Morimoto , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

We prove global stability results of {\sl DiPerna-Lions} renormalized solutions for the initial boundary value problem associated to some kinetic equations, from which existence results classically follow. The (possibly nonlinear) boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-29 Stéphane Mischler