Computation of nonlinear functionals in particle methods

DOI10.1007/BF02238432MaRDI QIDQ1900693zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 14 March 1996

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238432

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationcoarse grainingconvergenceentropyerror estimateHermite functionsMaxwell distributionMott-Smith distributionsNavier-Stokes distributionnumerical examplesparticle methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Review text

Let \(f\) be a one-dimensional real density which is Lipschitz continuous and positive on \(B_R= \{x\in \mathbb{R}_1\): \(|x|\leq R\}\), \(R>0\). The author is interested in the estimation of functionals of the form \[ \int \varphi (f(v)) dv \] where \(\varphi: \mathbb{R}^+\to \mathbb{R}\) is continuous and \(\varphi (0) =0\). In section 2 an error estimate for the approximation of these functionals using a coarse graining of the particle space is given. In Section 3, the author assumes moreover that its density can be represented by a finite series of Hermite functions and shows the improvement in speed of convergence compared to the coarse graining method. Finally, in Section 4, numerical examples are given and the entropy is computed for different types of distribution functions occuring in the kinetic theory (Maxwell, Navier-Stokes and Mott-Smith distributions). Moreover, the time development of the entropy for the BKW solution of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation is shown.

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