Entropic convergence for solutions of the Boltzmann equation with general physical initial data

DOI10.1080/00411459708020293zbMath0905.76070OpenAlexW2053058325MaRDI QIDQ4398409

Bernt Wennberg, Eric Anders Carlen, Maria Conception Carvalho

Publication date: 9 February 1999

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00411459708020293

zbMATH Keywords

initial datafinite energy\(H\)-theoremequilibrium limitfinite entropy initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

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Cites Work

• Strict entropy production bounds and stability of the rate of convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation
• Metrics for probability distributions and the trend to equilibrium for solutions of the Boltzmann equation.
• Entropy production estimates for Boltzmann equations with physically realistic collision kernels

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