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A relativistic diffusion model with cylindrical symmetry, which propagates an initial state based on quantum chromodynamics in time towards a thermal equilibrium limit, is derived from nonequilibrium-statistical considerations: Adapting an…
Lattice Boltzmann models provide better understanding with mesoscopic eyesight on multi-component diffusion than macroscopic models. Based on the kinetic theory and starting from the He-Luo model, the state-of-the-art multi-component…
The lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model has become the most popular one in the lattice Boltzmann method for simulating the convection heat transfer in porous media. However, the LBGK model generally suffers from numerical instability…
The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space…
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The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) Boltzmann equation with the Maxwellian-Boltzmann-type equilibrium state leads to the set of thermo-hydrodynamic equations such as the continuity, the Navier-Stokes, and the heat-transfer equations in the…