Boltzmann to Landau from the Gradient Flow Perspective

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2022.112824MaRDI QIDQ6372890arXivFDO

Authors J. A. Carrillo, Matias G. Delgadino, Jeremy S.-H. Wu

Publication date 15 July 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NA.2022.112824

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

arXiv classification

math.AP

Abstract: We revisit the grazing collision limit connecting the Boltzmann equation to the Landau(-Fokker-Planck) equation from their recent reinterpretations as gradient flows. Our results are in the same spirit as the $Gamma$-convergence of gradient flows technique introduced by Sandier and Serfaty. In this setting, the grazing collision limit reduces to showing the lower semi-continuous convergence of the Boltzmann entropy-dissipation to the Landau entropy-dissipation.

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