Boltzmann equation with cutoff Rutherford scattering cross section near Maxwellian

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01713-9MaRDI QIDQ2665253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lingbing He, Yulong Zhou

Publication date 18 November 2021

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07598

zbMATH Keywords

close-to-equilibrium regimecoercivity estimateglobal well-posednessglobal-in-time error estimateLandau approximationlinear-quasilinear energy method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Abstract: The well-known Rutherford differential cross section, denoted by $dOmega/dsigma$, corresponds to a two body interaction with Coulomb potential. It leads to the logarithmically divergence of the momentum transfer (or the transport cross section) which is described by ${\displaystyle }$int_{{mathbb S}^2} (1-cos heta) frac{dOmega}{dsigma} dsigmasim int_0^{pi} heta^{-1}d heta. ${\displaystyle }$ Here $heta$ is the deviation angle in the scattering event. Due to screening effect, physically one can assume that $het{a}_{min}$ is the order of magnitude of the smallest angles for which the scattering can still be regarded as Coulomb scattering. Under ad hoc cutoff $hetageqhet{a}_{min}$ on the deviation angle, L. D. Landau derived a new equation in cite{landau1936transport} for the weakly interacting gas which is now referred to as the Fokker-Planck-Landau or Landau equation. In the present work, we establish a unified framework to justify Landau's formal derivation in cite{landau1936transport} and the so-called Landau approximation problem proposed in cite{alexandre2004landau} in the close-to-equilibrium regime. Precisely, (i). we prove global well-posedness of the Boltzmann equation with cutoff Rutherford cross section which is perhaps the most singular kernel both in relative velocity and deviation angle. (ii). we prove a global-in-time error estimate between solutions to Boltzmann and Landau equations with logarithm accuracy, which is consistent with the famous Coulomb logarithm. Key ingredients into the proofs of these results include a complete coercivity estimate of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator, a uniform spectral gap estimate and a novel linear-quasilinear method.

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