Long-time asymptotics for homoenergetic solutions of the Boltzmann equation: collision-dominated case (Q2327826)

The paper concerns studies on the long-time asymptotics of the homoenergetic solutions for the Boltzmann equation when the collision kernel describes the interactions between non-Maxwellian molecules. For the equation \(\partial_t g-(L(t)\omega)\cdot\partial_\omega g=\mathbb{C}g(\omega)\), when the collision term \(\mathbb{C}g(\omega)\) is much larger than the hyperbolic term \((L(t)\omega)\cdot\partial_\omega g\) (collision-dominated) as \(t\rightarrow\infty\), they formally obtainthat the corresponding distribution of particle velocities for the associated homoenergetic flows can be approximated by a family approximately Maxwellians with a time-dependent temperature by the standard Hilbert expansion. Here the homogeneity of the collision kernel and the particular form of the hyperbolic term are used. It is also interesting to prove rigorously the existence of solutions of the Boltzmann equation with the asymptotic properties obtained in this paper as in [\textit{R. D. James} et al., Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 231, No. 2, 787--843 (2019; Zbl 1430.82012)], where they gave the rigorous proof of existence of self-similar solutions when the collision kernel describes the interactions between Maxwell molecules, and the terms \((L(t)w)\cdot\partial_\omega g\) and \(\mathbb{C}g(\omega)\) have the comparable size as \(t\rightarrow\infty\).