The radiative transfer equation in the forward-peaked regime

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2395-8zbMATH Open1319.35254arXiv1411.0163OpenAlexW1750902231MaRDI QIDQ2354005FDOQ2354005

Ricardo Alonso, Weiran Sun

Publication date: 10 July 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we study the radiative transfer equation in the forward-peaked regime in free space. Specifically, it is shown that the equation is well-posed by proving instantaneous regularization of weak solutions for arbitrary initial datum in L1. Classical techniques for hypo-elliptic operators such as averaging lemma are used in the argument. Among the interesting aspect of the proof are the use of the stereographic projection and the presentation of a rigorous expression for the scattering operator given in terms of a fractional Laplace-Beltrami operator on the sphere, or equivalently, a weighted fractional Laplacian analog in the projected plane. Such representations may be used for accurate numerical simulations of the model. As a bonus given by the methodology, we show convergence of Henyey-Greenstein scattering models and vanishing of the solution at time algebraic rate due to scattering diffusion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0163

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zbMATH Keywords

radiative transfer equationscattering operatorfractional Laplace-Beltrami operatorHenyey-Greenstein scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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