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For the non cutoff radially symmetric homogeneous Boltzmann equation with Maxwellian molecules, we give the numerical solutions using symbolic manipulations and spectral decomposition of Hermit functions. The initial data can belong to some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Léo Glangetas , Ibrahim Jrad

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility of using fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate collisional kinetic equations in kinetic theory. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

Paper presents a new solver for numerical solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with Shakhov model collision integral (S-model) for arbitrary spatial domains. Numerical method utilizes Tensor-Train decomposition, which allows to reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 A. V. Chikitkin , E. K. Kornev , V. A. Titarev

In [L. Liu and S. Jin, Multiscale Model. Simult., 16, 1085-1114, 2018], spectral convergence and long-time decay of the numerical solution towards the global equilibrium of the stochastic Galerkin approximation for the Boltzmann equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Esther S. Daus , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jon Wilkening , Johann Rafelski

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

This paper presents multilevel hybrid transport (MLHT) methods for solving the neutral-particle Boltzmann transport equation. The proposed MLHT methods are formulated on a sequence of spatial grids using a multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Vincent N. Novellino , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

This paper deals with the long time behavior of solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. The interactions considered are the so-called (non cut-off and non mollified) hard potentials. We prove an exponential in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Isabelle Tristani

A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Nicholas Hale , Sheehan Olver

An algorithm for sequential calculation of non-isotropic matrix elements of the collision integral which are necessary for the solution of the non-linear Boltzmann equation by moment method is proposed. Isotropic matrix elements that we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 I. A. Ender , L. A. Bakaleinikov , E. Yu. Flegontova , A. B. Gerasimenko

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

Starting from the recently proposed energy-based deviational formulation for solving the Boltzmann equation [J.-P. Peraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Phys. Rev. B 84, 2011], which provides significant computational speedup compared to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

This paper presents a new method for the solution of multiscale stochastic differential equations at the diffusive time scale. In contrast to averaging-based methods, e.g., the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) or the equation-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 A. Abdulle , G. A. Pavliotis , U. Vaes

A uniform approach is introduced to study the existence of measure valued solutions to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for both hard potential with finite energy, and soft potential with finite or infinite energy, by using Toscani…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Yoshinori Morimoto , Shuaikun Wang , Tong Yang

Recently the general form of a translation-covariant quantum Boltzmann equation has been derived which describes the dynamics of a tracer particle in a quantum gas. We develop a stochastic wave function algorithm that enables full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-24 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

Lattice-Boltzmann methods are known for their simplicity, efficiency and ease of parallelization, usually relying on uniform Cartesian meshes with a strong bond between spatial and temporal discretization. This fact complicates the crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Thomas Bellotti , Loïc Gouarin , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot

We present recent results [4, 28, 29] about the quantitative study of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator, and its application to the study of the trend to equilibrium for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

We propose a novel numerical method for solving multi-dimensional, special relativistic Boltzmann equations for neutrinos coupled to hydrodynamics equations. It is meant to be applied to simulations of core-collapse supernovae. We handle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

We consider an inverse problem for the Boltzmann equation with nonlinear collision operator in dimensions $n\geq 2$. We show that the kinetic collision kernel can be uniquely determined from the incoming-to-outgoing mappings on the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Ru-Yu Lai , Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Yang

The Boltzmann equation, an integro-differential equation for the molecular distribution function in the physical and velocity phase space, governs the fluid flow behavior at a wide range of physical conditions, including compressible,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Shashank Jaiswal , Alina A. Alexeenko , Jingwei Hu