In the last few years the theory of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation has witnessed a veritable turrent of contributions, spurred by the basic result of DiPerna and Lions. Here we wish to survey these results with particular attention to some recent developments.
We perform a numerical study of the fluctuations of the rescaled hydrodynamic transverse velocity field during the cooling state of a homogeneous granular gas. We are interested in the role of Molecular Chaos for the amplitude of the hydrodynamic noise and its relaxation in time. For this purpose we compare the results of Molecular Dynamics (MD, deterministic dynamics) with those from Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC, random process), where Molecular...