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We consider the socalled Bathnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, an approximation of the Boltzmann equation, describing the time evolution of a single momoatomic rarefied gas and satisfying the same two main properties (conservation properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Marlies Pirner

We consider the existence of steady rarefied flows of polyatomic gas between two parallel condensed phases, where evaporation and condensation processes occur. To this end, we study the existence problem of stationary solutions in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ki-Nam Hong , Marwa Shahine , Seok-Bae Yun

The boundary problem about behaviour (oscillations) of the electronic plasmas with arbitrary degree of degeneration of electronic gas in half-space with diffusion boundary conditions is analytically solved. The kinetic equation of Vlasov -…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 A. V. Latyshev , S. Suleimanova

The Lorentz gas, a point particle making mirror-like reflections from an extended collection of scatterers, has been a useful model of deterministic diffusion and related statistical properties for over a century. This survey summarises…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-29 Carl P. Dettmann

The Boltzmann equation for inelastic and rough hard spheres is considered as a model of a dilute granular gas. In this model, the collisions are characterized by constant coefficients of normal and tangential restitution and hence the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-03 Gilberto M. Kremer , Andrés Santos , Vicente Garzó

The self-diffusion process of a hard sphere fluid confined by two parallel plates separated by a distance on the order of the particle diameter is studied. The starting point is a closed kinetic equation for the distribution function that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Manuel Mayo , María Isabel García de Soria , Pablo Maynar , José Javier Brey

We consider a one-dimensional gas of two kinds of particles with different masses interacting through short range interactions. The system exhibits an extreme form of the Soret effect: when the ends of the system are in contact with thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adan Garriga , Jorge Kurchan , Felix Ritort

We apply the method of invariant manifolds to derive equations of generalized hydrodynamics from the linearized Boltzmann equation and determine exact transport coefficients, obeying Green-Kubo formulas. Numerical calculations are performed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Colangeli , M. Kroger , H. C. Ottinger

A steady self-diffusion process in a gas of hard spheres at equilibrium is analyzed. The system exhibits a constant gradient of labeled particles. Neither the concentration of these particles nor its gradient are assumed to be small. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

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

The Boltzmann equation for $d$-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models is considered to determine the collisional moments of second, third and fourth degree in a granular binary mixture. These collisional moments are exactly evaluated in terms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-08 Constantino Sánchez Romero , Vicente Garzó

A Multi-scale Boltzmann Equation (MBE) is found from the gas-kinetic theory and the direct modeling philosophy as a master equation for complex physical systems of neutral gases across all flow regimes, which locates between the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Sha Liu , Junzhe Cao , Sirui Yang , Chengwen Zhong

In this work we study a r-species mixture of gases within the relativistic kinetic theory point of view. We use the relativistic covariant full Boltzmann equation and we incorporate the Schwarzschild metric. The method of solution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-10 Valdemar Moratto , Gilberto M. Kremer

We investigate the fractional diffusion limit of a Linear Boltzmann equation with heavy-tailed velocity equilibrium in a half-space with Maxwell boundary conditions. We derive a new confined version of the fractional Laplacian and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Ludovic Cesbron

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation (or the relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation) describes the dynamics of single-species fast-moving quantum particles. With the recent development of the relativistic quantum mechanics, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Gi-Chan Bae , Jin Woo Jang , Seok-Bae Yun

The paper is devoted to constructing the global solutions around global Maxwellians to the initial-boundary value problem on the Boltzmann equation in general bounded domains with isothermal diffuse reflection boundaries. We allow a class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Renjun Duan , Yong Wang

The Boltzmann kinetic equation is considered to compute the transport coefficients associated with the mass flux of intruders in a granular gas. Intruders and granular gas are immersed in a gas of elastic hard spheres (molecular gas). We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

The mesosocpic concept is applied to the theory of mixtures. The aim is to investigate the diffusion phenomenon from a mesoscopic point of view. The domain of the field quantities is extended by the set of mesoscopic variables, here the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Palumbo , C. Papenfuss , P. Rogolino

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

In the paper, we study the plane Couette flow of a rarefied gas between two parallel infinite plates at $y=\pm L$ moving relative to each other with opposite velocities $(\pm \alpha L,0,0)$ along the $x$-direction. Assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang