On stable wall boundary conditions for the Hermite discretization of the linearised Boltzmann equation (Q1706311): Difference between revisions

The aim of this paper is to derive stability criteria for the linearised Boltzmann equation with Hermite discretization. For this purpose, a brief introduction to Onsager matrix theory is given, which will be used later. Then an example of instability for Maxwell boundary conditions is given. Finally, several theorems, including Onsager compatibility, are proved in an appendix. The proofs use Cauchy-Schwartz inequality. There is a parallel theory with Appell Hermite polynomials from [\textit{J. Tölke} et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 129, No. 1--3, 91--99 (2000; Zbl 0976.76062)], which leads to similar equations, without squareroots on the diagonals, e.g. equation (80).