On Rosenau-Type Approximations to Fractional Diffusion Equations

Owing to the Rosenau argument in Physical Review A, 46 (1992), pag. 12-15, originally proposed to obtain a regularized version of the Chapman-Enskog expansion of hydrodynamics, we introduce a non-local linear kinetic equation which approximates a fractional diffusion equation. We then show that the solution to this approximation, apart of a rapidly vanishing in time perturbation, approaches the fundamental solution of the fractional diffusion (a L\'evy stable law) at large times

One-Dimensional Fokker-Planck Equations and Functional Inequalities for Heavy Tailed Densities

We present and discuss connections between the problem of trend to equilibrium for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations modeling socio-economic problems, and one-dimensional functional inequalities of the type of Poincare, Wirtinger and logarithmic Sobolev, with weight, for probability densities with polynomial tails. As main examples, we consider inequalities satisfied by inverse Gamma densities, taking values on R+, and Cauchy-type densities, taking values on R

Global solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the discrete Boltzmann equation.

This paper studies an initial-boundary value problem for the discrete Boltzmann in one dimension of space. For specularly reflective boundary conditions, we prove a global existence theorem when the initial data belong to L_1((-1,1))

Asymptotic properties of the inelastic Kac model

We introduce and discuss the asymptotic behavior of certain models of dissipative systems obtained from a suitable modification of Kac caricature of a Maxwellian gas. It is shown that global equilibria different from concentration are possible if the energy is not finite. These equilibria are distributed like stable laws, and attract initial densities which belong to the normal domain of attraction. If the initial density is assumed of finite energy, with higher moments bounded, it is shown that the solution converges for large-time to a profile with power law tails. These tails are heavily dependent on the collision rule