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The linearized Boltzmann collision operator has a central role in many important applications of the Boltzmann equation. Recently some important classical properties of the linearized collision operator for monatomic single species were…
We prove new moment-preserving polynomially weighted convolution estimates for the gain operator of the Boltzmann equation with hard potentials, including the critical case of hard-spheres. Our approach relies crucially on a novel…
In this article, we recall various existing kinetic models of non-reactive polyatomic gases. We also review the results, all recently obtained, about the compactness of the associated linearized Boltzmann operator, and briefly investigate…
We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…
In this paper we consider the Boltzmann equation modelling the motion of a polyatomic gas where the integration collision operator in comparison with the classical one involves an additional internal energy variable $I\in\mathbb{R}_+$ and a…
Based on the Hermite expansion of the distribution function, we introduce a Galerkin spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with the realistic inverse-power-law models. A practical algorithm is proposed to evaluate…
In this paper we complete the program initiated by the first and second authors and rigorously derive a Boltzmann-type equation that incorporates higher order collisions among gas particles. More precisely, starting from a finite…
Accurate modelling of the interaction between fast electrons and partially ionized atoms is important for evaluating tokamak disruption mitigation schemes based on material injection. This requires accounting for the effect of screening of…
We prove explicit coercivity estimates for the linearized Boltzmann and Landau operators, for a general class of interactions including any inverse-power law interactions, and hard spheres. The functional spaces of these coercivity…
Coulomb collisions in plasmas are typically modeled using the Boltzmann collision operator, or its variants, which apply to weakly magnetized plasmas in which the typical gyroradius of particles significantly exceeds the Debye length.…
A general framework for the kinetic modelling of non-relativistic polyatomic gases is proposed,where each particle is characterized both by its velocity and by its internal state, and the Boltzmann collisionoperator involves suitably…
In this work, we are interested in the spectrum of the diffusively excited granular gases equation, in a space inhomogeneous setting, linearized around an homogeneous equilibrium. We perform a study which generalizes to a non-hilbertian…
This paper reviews results on the scalar Boltzmann equation for a single-component polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy. For the space homogeneous problem, $L^1$-theory is established, for solutions with initial strictly positive…
The phase space of a noncanonical Hamiltonian system is partially inaccessible due to dynamical constraints (Casimir invariants) arising from the kernel of the Poisson tensor. When an ensemble of noncanonical Hamiltonian systems is allowed…
A kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is proposed and explored as a practical means to investigate the properties of a dilute granular gas. It is shown that all spatially homogeneous initial distributions approach a universal…
We present a numerical algorithm for evaluating the Boltzmann collision operator with $O(N^2)$ operations based on high order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in the velocity variable. To formulate the approach, Galerkin projection of…
In this work, we are concerned with the regularities of the solutions to Boltzmann equation with the physical collision kernels for the full range of intermolecular repulsive potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$. We give the new and…
In this paper, for the first time a theory is formulated that predicts velocity and spatial correlations between occupation numbers that occur in lattice gas automata violating semi-detailed balance. Starting from a coupled BBGKY hierarchy…
We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…
The kinetic energy distribution function satisfying the Boltzmann equation is studied analytically and numerically for a system of inelastic hard spheres in the case of binary collisions. Analytically, this function is shown to have a…