Spectral-Lagrangian methods for collisional models of non-equilibrium statistical states

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2008.09.033zbMATH Open1159.82320arXiv0710.5308OpenAlexW2162483424MaRDI QIDQ1009955FDOQ1009955


Authors: Sri Harsha Tharkabhushanam, Irene M. Gamba Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 April 2009

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new spectral Lagrangian based deterministic solver for the non-linear Boltzmann Transport Equation for Variable Hard Potential (VHP) collision kernels with conservative or non-conservative binary interactions. The method is based on symmetries of the Fourier transform of the collision integral, where the complexity in its computing is reduced to a separate integral over the unit sphere S2. In addition, the conservation of moments is enforced by Lagrangian constraints. The resulting scheme, implemented in free space is very versatile and adjusts in a very simple manner, to several cases that involve energy dissipation due to local micro-reversibility (inelastic interactions) or elastic model of slowing down process. Our simulations are benchmarked with the available exact self-similar solutions, exact moment equations and analytical estimates for homogeneous Boltzmann equation for both elastic and inelastic VHP interactions. Benchmarking of the simulations involves the selection of a time self-similar rescaling of the numerical distribution function which is performed using the continuous spectrum of the equation for Maxwell molecules as studied first in cite{asympGranular} and generalized to a wide range of related models in cite{BCG}. The method also produces accurate results in the case of inelastic diffusive Boltzmann equations for hard-spheres (inelastic collisions under thermal bath), where overpopulated non-Gaussian exponential tails have been conjectured in computations by stochastic methods in cite{vanNoi-Ernst, ernst-brito, MSS, GRW04} and rigourously proven in cite{diffGran} and cite{highEnergyTails}.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5308




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