A conservative spectral method for the Boltzmann equation with anisotropic scattering and the grazing collisions limit

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.03.035MaRDI QIDQ349146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey R. Haack, Irene M. Gamba

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4625

zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodsBoltzmann equationgrazing collisionsLandau-Fokker-Planck equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

Abstract: We present the formulation of a conservative spectral scheme for Boltzmann collision operators with anisotropic scattering mechanisms to model grazing collision limit regimes approximating the solution to the Landau equation in space homogeneous setting. The scheme is based on the conservative spectral method of Gamba and Tharkabhushanam [17, 18]. This formulation is derived from the weak form of the Boltzmann equation, which can represent the collisional term as a weighted convolution in Fourier space. Within this framework, we also study the rate of convergence of the Fourier transform for the Boltzmann collision operator in the grazing collisions limit to the Fourier transform for the Landau collision operator for a family of non-integrable angular scattering cross sections. We analytically show that the decay rate to equilibrium depends on the parameters associated with the collision cross section, and specifically study numerically the differences between the classical Rutherford scattering angular cross section, which has logarithmic error in approximating Landau, and an artificial cross section with a linear error.

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