Convergence and error estimates for the Lagrangian-based conservative spectral method for Boltzmann equations

DOI10.1137/18M1173332zbMATH Open1404.76185arXiv1611.04171OpenAlexW2559172778MaRDI QIDQ4562243FDOQ4562243

Authors: Sri Harsha Tharkabhushanam, Ricardo Alonso, Irene M. Gamba 

Publication date: 19 December 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop error estimates for the semi-discrete conservative spectral method for the approximation of the elastic and inelastic space homogeneous Boltzmann equation introduced by the authors in cite{GT09}. In addition we study the long time convergence of such semi-discrete solution to equilibrium Maxwellian distribution that conserves the mass, momentum and energy associated to the initial data. The numerical method is based on the Fourier transform of the collisional operator and a Lagrangian optimization correction that enforces the collision invariants, namely conservation of mass, momentum and energy in the elastic case, and just mass and momentum in the inelastic one. We present a detailed semi-discrete analysis on convergence of the proposed numerical method which includes the $L^1-L^2$ theory for the scheme. This analysis allows us to present, additionally, convergence in Sobolev spaces and convergence to equilibrium for the numerical approximation. The results of this work answer a long standing open problem posed by Cercignani et al. in cite[Chapter 12]{CIP} about finding error estimates for a numerical scheme associated to the Boltzmann equation, as well as showing the semi-discrete numerical solution converges to the equilibrium Maxwellian distribution associated to the initial value problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04171

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zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationsnonlinear integral equationsrarefied gas flowsconservative spectral methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Transform methods (e.g., integral transforms) applied to PDEs (35A22) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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