Title
Rescaled Objective Solutions of Fokker--Planck and Boltzmann equations
Abstract
We study the long-time behavior of symmetric solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation and a closely related nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation. If the symmetry of the solutions corresponds to shear flows, the existence of stationary solutions can be ruled out because the energy is not conserved. After anisotropic rescaling, both equations conserve the energy. We show that the rescaled Boltzmann equation does not admit stationary densities of Maxwellian type (exponentially decaying). For the rescaled Fokker-Planck equation we demonstrate that all solutions converge to a Maxwellian in the long-time limit, however, the convergence rate is only algebraic, not exponential.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1137/18M1202335
SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
objective solution,Boltzmann equation,Fokker-Planck,hypocoercivity
Journal
51
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0036-1410
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karsten Matthies112.65
Florian Theil2145.66