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Dynamical self-consistent constraints deduced from the Boltzmann equation are necessary to analyse and interpret kinematic data in the Galaxy. It has been shown that the standard epicycle theory approach, a first order theory to estimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 O. Bienayme , N. Sechaud

The linear Boltzmann equation can be solved with separation of variables in one dimension, i.e., in three-dimensional space with planar symmetry. In this method, solutions are given by superpositions of eigenmodes which are sometimes called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Manabu Machida

We take into account the dynamics of three types of models of rotating galaxies in polar coordinates in a rotating frame. Due to non-axisymmetric potential perturbations, the angular momentum varies with time, and the kinetic energy depends…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Li-Na Zhang , Wen-Fang Liu , Xin Wu

The aim of this work is to provide an analytical model to characterize the equilibrium points and the phase space associated with the singly-averaged dynamics caused by the planetary oblateness coupled with the solar radiation pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Elisa Maria Alessi , Camilla Colombo , Alessandro Rossi

We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…

Analytic methods to investigate periodic orbits in galactic potentials. To evaluate the quality of the approximation of periodic orbits in the logarithmic potential constructed using perturbation theory based on Hamiltonian normal forms.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Giuseppe Pucacco , Dino Boccaletti , Cinzia Belmonte

In the paper the possible approaches to the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with hard sphere collisions from underlying dynamics are considered. In particular, a formalism for the description of the evolution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 V. I. Gerasimenko

High-precision astrometric and radial-velocity observations require accurate modelling of stellar motions in order to extrapolate measurements over long time intervals, and to detect deviations from uniform motion caused for example by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 Alexey G. Butkevich , Lennart Lindegren

We present the formulation of a new infinite family of self-consistent stellar models, designed to describe axisymmetric flat galaxies. The corresponding density-potential pair is obtained as a superposition of members belonging to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-14 Juan F. Pedraza , Javier Ramos-Caro , Guillermo A. Gonzalez

(abridged) Pulsar activity and its related radiation mechanism are usually explained by invoking some plasma processes occurring inside the magnetosphere. Despite many detailed local investigations, the global electrodynamics around those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Pétri

In this paper we consider a Vlasov or collisionless Boltzmann equation describing the dynamics of planetary rings. We propose a simple physical model, where the particles of the rings move under the gravitational Newtonian potential of two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Armando Majorana

The reaction of collective oscillations excited in the interaction between aperiodically growing Jeans-type gravity perturbations and stars of a rapidly rotating disk of flat galaxies is considered. An equation is derived which describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evgeny Griv , Michael Gedalin , David Eichler , Chi Yuan

This paper presents general relativistic numerical simulations of uniformly rotating polytropes. Equations are developed using MSQI coordinates, but taking a logarithm of the radial coordinate. The result is relatively simple elliptical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Philip David Flammer

Analytic solutions for the evolution of cosmological linear density perturbations in the baryonic gas and collisionless dark matter are derived. The solutions are expressed in a closed form in terms of elementary functions, for arbitrary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Adi Nusser

In this paper, we propose a moment method to numerically solve the Vlasov equations using the framework of the NRxx method developed in [6, 8, 7] for the Boltzmann equation. Due to the same convection term of the Boltzmann equation and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

An important physical model describing the dynamics of dilute weakly ionized plasmas in the collisional kinetic theory is the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for which the plasma responds strongly to the self-consistent electrostatic force.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Renjun Duan , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

Combining analytical and numerical methods, we study within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, a broad class of models relevant for the dynamics of dissipative fluids, including granular gases. We use the new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-23 E. Trizac , A. Barrat , M. H. Ernst

We present a novel numerical solver for the systems of coupled non-linear elliptical differential equations. The solver partitions the computational domain into a set of rectangular pseudo-spectral collocation subdomains and is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Nikolay Sukhov

With applications in astroparticle physics in mind, we generalize a method for the solution of the nonlinear, space homogeneous Boltzmann equation with isotropic distribution function to arbitrary matrix elements. The method is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Hohenegger

We provide an exact infinite power series solution that describes the trajectory of a nonlinear simple pendulum undergoing librating and rotating motion for all time. Although the series coefficients were previously given in [V. Fair\'en,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 W. Cade Reinberger , Morgan S. Holland , Nathaniel S. Barlow , Steven J. Weinstein