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The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom and the wide range of both spatial and temporal scales render…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Anthony Chang , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi

A compressible flow characterized by a velocity field $u_x(x,t)=ax/(1+at)$ is analyzed by means of the Boltzmann equation and the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook kinetic model. The sign of the control parameter (the longitudinal deformation rate $a$)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Santos

Starting from the kinetic approach for a mixture of reacting gases whose particles interact through elastic scattering and a bimolecular reversible chemical reaction, the equations that govern the dynamics of the system are obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone

For plasma velocity space instabilities driven by particle distributions significantly deviated from a Maxwellian, weak collisions can damp the instabilities by an amount that is significantly beyond the collisional rate itself. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

We analyze a lattice model closely related to the one-dimensional inelastic gas with periodic boundary condition. The one-dimensional inelastic gas tends to form high density clusters of particles with almost the same velocity, separated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Srdjan Ostojic , Debabrata Panja , Bernard Nienhuis

One considers the motion of a test particle in an homogeneous fluid in equilibrium at temperature $T$, undergoing dissipative collisions with the fluid particles. It is shown that the corresponding linear Boltzmann equation still posseses a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. A. Martin , J. Piasecki

Due to the mathematical complexity of the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres, a kinetic model has recently been proposed whereby the collision rate (which is proportional to the relative velocity for hard spheres) is replaced by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Santos

We calculate in this work the Navier-Stokes transport coefficients from the Boltzmann equation for $d$-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models. By granular gas we mean here a low density system of identical spheres that lose a fraction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Moisés G. Chamorro , Vicente Garzó , Francisco Vega Reyes

We study here the steady state attained in a granular gas of inelastic rough spheres that is subject to a spatially uniform random volume force. The stochastic force has the form of the so-called white noise and acts by adding impulse to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-05 Francisco Vega Reyes , Andrés Santos

Maxwell models for nonlinear kinetic equations have many applications in physics, dynamics of granular gases, economy, etc. In the present manuscript we consider such models from a very general point of view, including those with arbitrary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Bobylev , C. Cercignani , I. M. Gamba

The authors present a study of the non equilibrium statistical properties of a one dimensional hard-rod fluid dissipating energy via inelastic collisions and subject to the action of a Gaussian heat bath, simulating an external driving…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi , Pedro Tarazona , Fabio Cecconi

In this paper we provide a rigorous derivation of the inelastic linear Boltzmann equation, in the Boltzmann-Grad limit, from a dissipative, random, Lorentz gas in arbitrary dimensions d $\geq$ 2. Specifically, we consider a microscopic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Théophile Dolmaire , Alessia Nota

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec

The exact nonequilibrium steady state solution of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for a driven inelastic Maxwell model was obtained by Ben-Naim and Krapivsky [Phys. Rev. E 61, R5 (2000)] in the form of an infinite product for the Fourier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Santos , M. H. Ernst

We present a kinetic description of Bose-Einstein condensation for particle systems being out of thermal equilibrium, which may happen for gluons produced in the early stage of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The dynamics of bosons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Kai Zhou , Zhe Xu , Pengfei Zhuang , Carsten Greiner

The problem of ballistically controlled annihilation is revisited for general initial velocity distributions and arbitrary dimension. An analytical derivation of the hierarchy equations obeyed by the reduced distributions is given, and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslaw Piasecki , Emmanuel Trizac , Michel Droz

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

In the article correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert's and Enskog's methods are discussed. The equations system of multicomponent non-equilibrium gas dynamics is derived, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-27 S. A. Serov , S. S. Serova

Two-body dissipation due to chemical reactions occurs in both ultracold fermionic and bosonic molecular gases. Despite recent advances in achieving quantum degeneracy, the loss dynamics are typically described phenomenologically using rate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-10 Xin-Yuan Gao , Yangqian Yan

A mathematical model is proposed where the classical Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model for gas mixtures is coupled to an advection-type equation for the temperature of the physical system. This coupled system is derived from first principles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Harsha Hutridurga , Francesco Salvarani