Simulation of Boundary Value Problems for the Boltzmann Equation

  • The paper presents numerical results on the simulation of boundary value problems for the Boltzmann equation in one and two dimensions. In the one-dimensional case, we use prescribed fluxes at the left and diffusive conditions on the right end of a slab to study the resulting steady state solution. Moreover, we compute the numerical density function in velocity space and compare the result with the Chapman-Enskog distribution obtained in the limit for continuous media. The aim of the two-dimensional simulations is to investigate the possibility of a symmetry break in the numerical solution.

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Author:Jens Struckmeier
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-5499
Series (Serial Number):Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report) (148)
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:1995
Year of first Publication:1995
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/04/03
Tag:Boltzmann Equation; Boundary Value Problems; Numerical Simulation
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
MSC-Classification (mathematics):65-XX NUMERICAL ANALYSIS / 65Cxx Probabilistic methods, simulation and stochastic differential equations (For theoretical aspects, see 68U20 and 60H35) / 65C05 Monte Carlo methods
76-XX FLUID MECHANICS (For general continuum mechanics, see 74Axx, or other parts of 74-XX) / 76Pxx Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation [See also 82B40, 82C40, 82D05] / 76P05 Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation [See also 82B40, 82C40, 82D05]
82-XX STATISTICAL MECHANICS, STRUCTURE OF MATTER / 82Cxx Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) / 82C80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.)
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011