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The incompressible Navier-Stokes limit of the Boltzmann equation for hard cutoff potentials (English)
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28 May 2009
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This work is concerned with the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids in three space dimension from the well-known Boltzmann equation that governs the kinetic theory of rarefied, monatomic gases. That equation determines the molecular number density depending on time, position and velocity as a solution of an integro-differential equation whose integral part is provided by the collision integral. The authors assume that the collision integral satisfies certain inequalities. They consider a perturbed Maxwellian distribution depending on a divergence-free velocity field as an initial value for the Boltzmann equation to investigate the properties of the renormalized number density with a small perturbation parameter and the velocity field it generates. By employing a sophisticated asymptotic analysis involving several properties of Lebesgue spaces, they prove that this velocity field is asymptotically equivalent to the Leray solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The mathematical structure of solutions are studied in great detail.
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Hydrodynamic limit
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Boltzmann equation
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incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
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renormalized solutions
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Leray solutions
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