Compactness property of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator for a mixture of monatomic and polyatomic species

DOI10.1007/S10955-024-03245-4arXiv2303.05845MaRDI QIDQ6131235FDOQ6131235

Niclas Bernhoff

Publication date: 4 April 2024

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The linearized Boltzmann collision operator has a central role in many important applications of the Boltzmann equation. Recently some important classical properties of the linearized collision operator for monatomic single species were extended to multicomponent monatomic gases and polyatomic single species. For multicomponent polyatomic gases, the case where the polyatomicity is modelled by a discrete internal energy variable was considered lately. Here we considers the corresponding case for a continuous internal energy variable. Compactness results, saying that the linearized operator can be decomposed into a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and a compact operator, bringing e.g., self-adjointness, is extended from the classical result for monatomic single species, under reasonable assumptions on the collision kernel. With a probabilistic formulation of the collision operator as a starting point, the compactness property is shown by a decomposition, such that the terms are, or at least are uniform limits of, Hilbert-Schmidt integral operators and therefore are compact operators. Moreover, bounds on - including coercivity of - the collision frequency are obtained for a hard sphere like, as well as hard potentials with cutoff like, models, from which Fredholmness of the linearized collision operator follows, as well as its domain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05845

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationgas mixturepolyatomic gaslinearized collision operatorHilbert-Schmidt integral operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Potential operators (47G40)

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