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We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper we present a numerical method for the Boltzmann equation. It is a spectral discretization in the velocity and a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in physical space. To obtain uniform approximation properties in the mach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

Competing phases or interactions in complex many-particle systems can result in free energy barriers that strongly suppress thermal equilibration. Here we discuss how extended ensemble Monte Carlo simulations can be used to study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trebst , D. A. Huse , E. Gull , H. G. Katzgraber , U. H. E. Hansmann , M. Troyer

Suprathermal fusion reactions, initiated by energetic particles slowing down and scattering in dense plasmas, can modify the burn dynamics at inertial confinement fusion (ICF) regimes. A 0D time-dependent Monte-Carlo code has been developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Marcus Borscz , Thomas A. Mehlhorn , Patrick A. Burr , Igor Morozov , Sergey Pikuz

The system of our interest is a dilute binary mixture, in which we consider that the species have different temperatures as an initial condition. To study their time evolution, we use the full version of the Boltzmann equation, under the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-10 Valdemar Moratto , L. S. Garcia-Colin

We present a novel hierarchical formulation of the fourth-order forward symplectic integrator and its numerical implementation in the GPU-accelerated direct-summation N-body code FROST. The new integrator is especially suitable for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab , Volker Springel

Paper presents a new solver for numerical solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with Shakhov model collision integral (S-model) for arbitrary spatial domains. Numerical method utilizes Tensor-Train decomposition, which allows to reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 A. V. Chikitkin , E. K. Kornev , V. A. Titarev

The Boltzmann kinetic equation is obtained from an integro-differential master equation that describes a stochastic dynamics in phase space of an isolated thermodynamic system. The stochastic evolution yields a generation of entropy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 Mário J. de Oliveira

We present a new method for neutrino-matter coupling in multi-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) with the full Boltzmann neutrino transport. The development is motivated by the fact that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

By means of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method, the Boltzmann equation is numerically solved for a gas of hard spheres enclosed between two parallel plates kept at different temperatures and subject to the action of a gravity field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-15 E. E. Tahiri , M. Tij , A. Santos

Ultrafast optical excitation of metals induces a non-equilibrium energy distribution in the electronic system, with a characteristic step-structure determined by Pauli blocking. On a femtosecond timescale, electron-electron scattering…

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

In the present work, we present a novel numerical algorithm to couple the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC) for the solution of the Boltzmann equation with a finite volume like method for the solution of the Euler equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco

The early thermalization puzzle arises from the unexpectedly early applicability of hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions. While hydrodynamics has traditionally been associated with the onset of local thermal equilibrium, its derivations --…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Xingjian Lu , Shuzhe Shi

Isolated quantum systems typically approach thermal equilibrium as described by the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). Going beyond this involves either higher order correlators (full thermalization) or the formation of state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Tabea Herrmann , Felix Fritzsch , Arnd Bäcker

The high temperature many-body density matrix is fundamental to path integral computation. The pair approximation, where the interaction part is written as a product of pair density matrices, is commonly used and is accurate to order tau…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 B. Militzer

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the thermodynamic cost of dissipative structures formed by active particles. Given the strong finite-size effects of such systems, it is essential to develop efficient numerical approaches that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-24 Ki-Won Kim , Euijoon Kwon , Yongjoo Baek

Recently developed series representations of the Boltzmann operator are used to obtain Quantum Mechanical results for the matrix elements, <x| exp(-{\beta} H)|x>, of the imaginary time propagator. The calculations are done for two different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Mahir E. Ocak

We analyze a volumetric formulation of lattice Boltzmann for compressible thermal fluid flows. The velocity set is chosen with the desired accuracy, based on the Gauss-Hermite quadrature procedure, and tested against controlled problems in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Sbragaglia , K. Sugiyama

Dense stellar systems such as globular clusters, galactic nuclei and nuclear star clusters are ideal loci to study stellar dynamics due to the very high densities reached, usually a million times higher than in the solar neighborhood; they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Justus Schneider , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Rainer Spurzem