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We consider the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff for soft potentials. For any given initial datum such that the mass, energy and entropy densities are bounded and the mass is away from vacuum, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Ling-Bing He , Jie Ji , Wei-Xi Li

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in a compact domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions. We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres of diameter $\epsilon$ in a box $\Lambda := [0, 1] \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Corentin Le Bihan

The departure of a granular gas in the instable region of parameters from the initial homogeneous cooling state is studied. Results from Molecular Dynamics and from Direct Monte Carlo simulation of the Boltzmann equation are compared. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We consider the Einstein-Boltzmann system for massless particles in the Bianchi I space-time with scattering cross-sections in a certain range of soft potentials. We assume that the space-time has an initial conformal gauge singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

In this paper we prove the global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Bose-Einstein particles for the hard sphere model for bounded anisotropic initial data. The main idea of our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Wenyi Li , Xuguang Lu

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for {\em inelastic hard spheres}, in the framework of so-called {\em constant normal restitution coefficients} $\alpha \in [0,1]$. In the physical regime of a small inelasticity (that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

In this paper, we give an overview of the results established in [3] which provides the first rigorous derivation of hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres in 3D. In particular, we obtain a new system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Ricardo J. Alonso , Bertrand Lods , Isabelle Tristani

In this paper, we consider a particular class of solutions to the Boltzmann equation which are referred to as homoenergetic solutions. They describe the dynamics of a dilute gas due to collisions and the action of either a shear, a dilation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Bernhard Kepka

We derive diffusive macroscopic equations for the particle and energy density of a system whose time evolution is described by a kinetic equation for the one particle position and velocity function f(r,v,t) that consists of a part that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro L. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz

We prove the well-posedness for the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with soft potentials when the initial datum is close to the {\it global Maxwellian} and has only polynomial decay at the large velocities in $L^2$ space. As a result, we get…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Chuqi Cao , Ling-Bing He , Jie Ji

The Boltzmann equation for $d$-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models is considered to analyze transport properties for monodisperse gas-solid suspensions. The influence of the interstitial gas phase on the dynamics of solid particles is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Aleksander Kubicki , Vicente Garzó

Motivated by the numerical investigation by Aoki et al. [1], we study a rarefied gas flow between two parallel infinite plates of the same temperature governed by the Boltzmann equation with diffuse reflection boundaries, where one plate is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Renjun Duan , Zhu Zhang

In this paper, we study the polyatomic Boltzmann equation based on continuous internal energy, focusing on physically relevant collision kernels of the hard potentials type with integrable angular part. We establish three main results:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Čolić

The Boltzmann equation is essential for gas thermodynamics,as it models how the molecular density distribution $F(t,x,v)$ changes over time. However, existing research primarily focuses on the single species Boltzmann equation, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang , Tianfang Wu

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 eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the linearized Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres (d=3) or disks (d=2) corresponding to d+2 hydrodynamic modes, are calculated in the long wavelength limit for a granular gas. The transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey

The homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell mixtures is considered to study the dynamics of tracer particles or impurities (solvent) immersed in a uniform granular gas (solute). The analysis is based on exact results derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-21 V. Garzó , E. Trizac

We consider a non-interacting one-dimensional gas accelerated by a constant and uniform external field. The energy absorbed from the field is transferred via elastic collisions to a bath of scattering obstacles. At gas-obstacle encounters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaroslaw Piasecki , Rodrigo Soto

Theory of granular dissipative gas is discussed based on Boltzmann's equation and in view of recent experimental results in micro-gravity during few CNES and ESA campaigns [9,11]. It is recalled that the Boltzmann's distribution is a steady…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Evesque

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao