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We discuss how kinetic and aerodynamic descriptions of a gas can be matched at some prescribed boundary. The boundary (matching) conditions arise from requirement that the relevant moments (p,u,...) of the particle density function be continuous at the boundary, and from the requirement that the closure relation, by which the aerodynamic equations (holding on one side of the boundary) arise from the kinetic equation (holding on the other side), be satisfied at the boundary. We do a case study involving the Knudsen gas equation on one side and a system involving the Burgers equation on the other side in section 2, and a discussion for the coupling of the full Boltzmann equation with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in section 3.
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In this paper, we deal with the problem of spherical interpolation of discretely given data of tensorial type. To this end, spherical tensor fields are investigated and a decomposition formula is described. Tensor spherical harmonics are introduced as eigenfunctions of a tensorial analogon to the Beltrami operator and discussed in detail. Based on these preliminaries, a spline interpolation process is described and error estimates are presented. Furthermore, some relations between the spline basis functions and the theory of radial basis functions are developed.
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The paper presents the shuffle algorithm proposed by Baganoff, which can be implemented in simulation methods for the Boltzmann equation to simplify the binary collision process. It is shown that the shuffle algborithm is a discrete approximation of an isotropic collision law. The transition probability as well as the scattering cross section of the shuffle algorithm are opposed to the corresponding quantities of a hard-sphere model. The discrepancy between measures on a sphere is introduced in order to quantify the approximation error by using the shuffle algorithm.