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The Boltzmann Equation: Mathematics and Applications

Carlo Cercignani (2007)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

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The paper is subdivided into two parts. The first presents a recent result by the author concerning the existence of the solution of the Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules, without any cutoff in the collision kernel, when the solution depends on just one variable. At variance with the well-known theorem of DiPerna- Lions, conservation of energy is also shown to hold. The second part will concern rarefied gas dynamics problems, governed by the Boltzmann equation and con- cerning...

Conservative forms of Boltzmann's collision operator: Landau revisited

Cédric Villani (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

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We show that Boltzmann's collision operator can be written explicitly in divergence and double divergence forms. These conservative formulations may be of interest for both theoretical and numerical purposes. We give an application to the asymptotics of grazing collisions.

Remarks on optimum kernels and optimum boundary kernels

Jitka Poměnková (2008)

Applications of Mathematics

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Kernel smoothers belong to the most popular nonparametric functional estimates used for describing data structure. They can be applied to the fix design regression model as well as to the random design regression model. The main idea of this paper is to present a construction of the optimum kernel and optimum boundary kernel by means of the Gegenbauer and Legendre polynomials.