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Hermite spectral method for the inelastic Boltzmann equation

Numerical Analysis 2023-08-15 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We propose a Hermite spectral method for the inelastic Boltzmann equation, which makes two-dimensional periodic problem computation affordable by the hardware nowadays. The new algorithm is based on a Hermite expansion, where the expansion coefficients for the VHS model are reduced into several summations and can be derived exactly. Moreover, a new collision model is built with a combination of the quadratic collision operator and a linearized collision operator, which helps us to balance the computational cost and the accuracy. Various numerical experiments, including spatially two-dimensional simulations, demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of this numerical scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2301.05850,
  title  = {Hermite spectral method for the inelastic Boltzmann equation},
  author = {Ruo Li and Yixiao Lu and Yanli Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05850},
  year   = {2023}
}
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