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Diffusive limit for a Boltzmann-like equation with non-conserved momentum

Mathematical Physics 2020-01-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP

Abstract

We consider a kinetic model whose evolution is described by a Boltzmann-like equation for the one-particle phase space distribution f(x,v,t)f(x,v,t). There are hard-sphere collisions between the particles as well as collisions with randomly fixed scatterers. As a result, this evolution does not conserve momentum but only mass and energy. We prove that the diffusively rescaled fε(x,v,t)=f(ε1x,v,ε2t)f^\varepsilon(x,v,t)=f(\varepsilon^{-1}x,v,\varepsilon^{-2}t), as ε0\varepsilon\to 0 tends to a Maxwellian Mρ,0,T=ρ(2πT)3/2exp[v22T]M_{\rho, 0, T}=\frac{\rho}{(2\pi T)^{3/2}}\exp[{-\frac{|v|^2}{2T}}], where ρ\rho and TT are solutions of coupled diffusion equations and estimate the error in Lx,v2L^2_{x,v}.

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@article{arxiv.1904.13253,
  title  = {Diffusive limit for a Boltzmann-like equation with non-conserved momentum},
  author = {Raffaele Esposito and Pedro G. Garrido and Joel L. Lebowitz and Rossana Marra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.13253},
  year   = {2020}
}
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