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 . 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 , as tends to a Maxwellian , where and are solutions of coupled diffusion equations and estimate the error in .
Cite
@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}
}