Anomalous diffusion limit of kinetic equations in spatially bounded domains (Q1799459)

The long-time small-mean free-path asymptotic solution of kinetic equations is investigated using the fractional Vlasov-Fokker-Planck kinetic equation \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_tf+v\nabla_xf & =\nabla_v(vf)-(-\Delta_v)^sf \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^+\times\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^d,\\ f(0,x,v) & =f_{in}(c,v), \text{ in } \Omega\times\mathbb{R}^d.\end{aligned}\eqno{(1)} \] Here, \((-\Delta_v)^s\) is the fractional Fokker-Planck collision operator, \(s\in(0,1)\), and \(\Omega\) is a smooth convex domain. Two types of boundary conditions at the kinetic scale are considered: a) absorption, b) specular reflection. The fractional diffusion equations on spatially bounded domain are derived from the kinetic equation (1). It it shown that in case a) the long-time, small-mean free-path asymptotic dynamics are described by a fractional diffusion equation with homogeneous Dirichlet-type boundary conditions set on the whole complement of the spatial domain. In case b), specular reflections lead to a new non-local diffusion operator \((-\Delta)^s_{SR}\) (the specular diffusion operator). This operator strongly depends on the interaction between the diffusion and the boundary and on the geometry of the domain. Two types of domains are considered: half-spaces and balls in \(\mathbb R^d\). Existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the specular diffusion operator are proved for both types of domains.