English
Related papers

Related papers: Kinetic-fluid boundary layers and acoustic limit f…

200 papers

We study the equilibrating effects of the boundary and intermolecular collision in the kinetic theory for rarefied gases. We consider the Maxwell-type boundary condition, which has weaker equilibrating effect than the commonly studied…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Hung-Wen Kuo

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental equation in kinetic theory that describes the motion of rarefied gases. In this study, we examine the Boltzmann equation within a $C^1$ bounded domain, subject to a large external potential $\Phi(x)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

In this paper, we prove the compressible Euler limit from the Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisional kernel and complete diffusive boundary condition in half-space by employing the Hilbert expansion which includes interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Shaojun Tang

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the Knudsen layer equation imposed on Maxwell reflection boundary condition with full ranges of cutoff collision kernels and accommodation coefficients (i.e., $- 3 < \gamma \leq 1$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Yulong Wu

We investigate the regularity issue for the diffuse reflection boundary problem to the stationary linearized Boltzmann equation for hard sphere potential, cutoff hard potential, or cutoff Maxwellian molecular gases in a strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 I-Kun Chen , Chun-Hsiung Hsia , Daisuke Kawagoe

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

This is the first in a series of papers connecting the boundary conditions for the compressible Navier-Stokes system from the Boltzmann equations with the Maxwell reflection boundary. The slip boundary conditions are formally derived from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Ning Jiang , Yulong Wu

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

Boundary effects play an important role in the study of hydrodynamic limits in the Boltzmann theory. We justify rigorously the validity of the hydrodynamic limit from the Boltzmann equation of soft potentials to the compressible Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Jing Ouyang , Yong Wang

We propose a well-posed Maxwell-type boundary condition for the linear moment system in half-space. As a reduction of the Boltzmann equation, the moment equations are available to model Knudsen layers near a solid wall, where proper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Ruo Li , Yichen Yang

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

The fluid dynamic limit of the Boltzmann equation leading to the Euler equations for an incompressible fluid with constant density in the presence of material boundaries shares some important features with the better known inviscid limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-01 François Golse

We investigate the fractional diffusion approximation of a kinetic equation set in a bounded interval with diffusive reflection conditions at the boundary. In an appropriate singular limit corresponding to small Knudsen number and long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Ludovic Cesbron , Antoine Mellet , Marjolaine Puel

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation with kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary conditions that describe possible short-range interactions between the binary mixture and the solid boundary. In the presence of surface diffusion on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

Consider the stationary Boltzmann equation in 2D convex domains with diffusive boundary condition. In this paper, we establish the hydrodynamic limits while the boundary layers are present, and derive the steady Navier-Stokes-Fourier system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Lei Wu

We study the nonlinear steady Boltzmann equation in the half space, with phase transition and Dirichlet boundary condition. In particular, we study the regularity of the solution to the half-space problem in the situation that the gas is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Hongxu Chen

We analyze a large number of high-order discrete velocity models for solving the Boltzmann-BGK equation for finite Knudsen number flows. Using the Chapman-Enskog formalism, we prove for isothermal flows a relation identifying the resolved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 C. Feuchter , W. Schleifenbaum

We investigate the fractional diffusion limit of a Linear Boltzmann equation with heavy-tailed velocity equilibrium in a half-space with Maxwell boundary conditions. We derive a new confined version of the fractional Laplacian and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Ludovic Cesbron

We study the Boltzmann equation near a global Maxwellian in the case of bounded domains. We consider the boundary conditions to be either specular reflections or Maxwellian diffusion. Starting from the reference work of Guo in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Marc Briant

This paper presents a spatially and temporally adaptive boundary condition to specify the volumetric flux for lattice Boltzmann methods. The approach differs from standard velocity boundary conditions because it allows the velocity to vary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 James E. McClure , Zhe Li , Adrian P. Sheppard , Cass T. Miller