116 research outputs found
Complete characterization of convergence to equilibrium for an inelastic Kac model
Pulvirenti and Toscani introduced an equation which extends the Kac
caricature of a Maxwellian gas to inelastic particles. We show that the
probability distribution, solution of the relative Cauchy problem, converges
weakly to a probability distribution if and only if the symmetrized initial
distribution belongs to the standard domain of attraction of a symmetric stable
law, whose index is determined by the so-called degree of
inelasticity, , of the particles: . This result is
then used: (1) To state that the class of all stationary solutions coincides
with that of all symmetric stable laws with index . (2) To determine
the solution of a well-known stochastic functional equation in the absence of
extra-conditions usually adopted
Probabilistic study of the speed of approach to equilibrium for an inelastic Kac model
This paper deals with a one--dimensional model for granular materials, which
boils down to an inelastic version of the Kac kinetic equation, with
inelasticity parameter . In particular, the paper provides bounds for
certain distances -- such as specific weighted --distances and the
Kolmogorov distance -- between the solution of that equation and the limit. It
is assumed that the even part of the initial datum (which determines the
asymptotic properties of the solution) belongs to the domain of normal
attraction of a symmetric stable distribution with characteristic exponent
\a=2/(1+p). With such initial data, it turns out that the limit exists and is
just the aforementioned stable distribution. A necessary condition for the
relaxation to equilibrium is also proved. Some bounds are obtained without
introducing any extra--condition. Sharper bounds, of an exponential type, are
exhibited in the presence of additional assumptions concerning either the
behaviour, near to the origin, of the initial characteristic function, or the
behaviour, at infinity, of the initial probability distribution function
Boltzmann equations for mixtures of Maxwell gases: exact solutions and power like tails
We consider the Boltzmann equations for mixtures ofMaxwell gases. It is shown
that in certain limiting case the equations admit self-similar solutions that
can be constructed in explicit form. More precisely, the solutions have simple
explicit integral representations. The most interesting solutions have finite
energy and power like tails. This shows that power like tails can appear not
just for granular particles (Maxwell models are far from reality in this case),
but also in the system of particles interacting in accordance with laws of
classical mechanics. In addition, non-existence of positive self-similar
solutions with finite moments of any order is proven for a wide class of
Maxwell models.Comment: 20 page
An asymptotic preserving scheme for the Kac model of the Boltzmann equation in the diffusion limit
International audienceIn this paper we propose a numerical scheme to solve the Kac model of the Boltzmann equation for multiscale rarefied gas dynamics. This scheme is uniformly stable with respect to the Knudsen number, consistent with the fluid-diffusion limit for small Knudsen numbers, and with the Kac equation in the kinetic regime. Our approach is based on the micro-macro decomposition which leads to an equivalent formulation of the Kac model that couples a kinetic equation with macroscopic ones. This method is validated with various test cases and compared to other standard methods
Tanaka Theorem for Inelastic Maxwell Models
We show that the Euclidean Wasserstein distance is contractive for inelastic
homogeneous Boltzmann kinetic equations in the Maxwellian approximation and its
associated Kac-like caricature. This property is as a generalization of the
Tanaka theorem to inelastic interactions. Consequences are drawn on the
asymptotic behavior of solutions in terms only of the Euclidean Wasserstein
distance
Self-similarity and power-like tails in nonconservative kinetic models
In this paper, we discuss the large--time behavior of solution of a simple
kinetic model of Boltzmann--Maxwell type, such that the temperature is time
decreasing and/or time increasing. We show that, under the combined effects of
the nonlinearity and of the time--monotonicity of the temperature, the kinetic
model has non trivial quasi-stationary states with power law tails. In order to
do this we consider a suitable asymptotic limit of the model yielding a
Fokker-Planck equation for the distribution. The same idea is applied to
investigate the large-time behavior of an elementary kinetic model of economy
involving both exchanges between agents and increasing and/or decreasing of the
mean wealth. In this last case, the large-time behavior of the solution shows a
Pareto power law tail. Numerical results confirm the previous analysis
Kinetic models with randomly perturbed binary collisions
We introduce a class of Kac-like kinetic equations on the real line, with
general random collisional rules, which include as particular cases models for
wealth redistribution in an agent-based market or models for granular gases
with a background heat bath. Conditions on these collisional rules which
guarantee both the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium profiles and their
main properties are found. We show that the characterization of these
stationary solutions is of independent interest, since the same profiles are
shown to be solutions of different evolution problems, both in the econophysics
context and in the kinetic theory of rarefied gases
Optics and Quantum Electronics
Contains table of contents for Section 3 and reports on twenty-one research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-89-C-0001Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Contract F49620-91-C-0091Charles S. Draper Laboratories Contract DL-H-441629MIT Lincoln LaboratoryCharles S. Draper Laboratories, Inc. Contract DL-H-418478Fujitsu LaboratoriesNational Science Foundation Grant ECS 90-12787National Center for Integrated PhotonicsNational Science Foundation Grant EET 88-15834National Science Foundation Grant ECS 85-52701U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Contract F49620-88-C-0089U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-91-C-0084U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-91-J-1956Johnson and Johnson Research GrantNational Institutes of Health Contract 2-R01-GM35459U.S. Department of Energy Grant DE-FG02-89 ER14012-A00
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