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Boltzmann-Grad limit of a hard sphere system in a box with isotropic boundary conditions

Corentin Le Bihan

UMPA (UMR CNRS 5669), École Normale Superieur de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 LYON, France

Received  April 2021 Revised  September 2021 Early access November 2021

Fund Project: The author thanks Sergio Simonella, Raphael Winter and the anonymous referees for their suggestions which helped to improve the paper. We also thank Laure Saint Raymond for suggesting the problem

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in a compact domain with {isotropic} boundary conditions. We consider a system of $ N $ hard spheres of diameter $ \epsilon $ in a box $ \Lambda : = [0, 1]\times(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^2 $. When a particle meets the boundary of the domain, it is instantaneously reinjected into the box with a random direction, {but} conserving kinetic energy. We prove that the first marginal of the process converges in the scaling $ N\epsilon^2 = 1 $, $ \epsilon\rightarrow 0 $ to the solution of the Boltzmann equation, with the same short time restriction of Lanford's classical theorem.

Keywords: Low density, Boltzmann-Grad limit, hard-sphere, stochastic boundary condition, kinetic theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 82C40; Secondary: 35Q20, 70L10, 82D05.
Citation: Corentin Le Bihan. Boltzmann-Grad limit of a hard sphere system in a box with isotropic boundary conditions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021177
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C. Le Bihan, Convergence D'un Système de Sphères Dures Vers une Solution de L'équation de Stokes-Fourier Avec Bord, Master's thesis, ENS de Lyon, 2019. Google Scholar

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[1]

R. K. Alexander, The Infinite Hard-Sphere System, ProQuest LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975, URL http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:7615092, Thesis (Ph.D.)–University of California, Berkeley.  Google Scholar

[2]

T. Bodineau, I. Gallagher and L. Saint-Raymond, A microscopic view of the Fourier law, Comptes Rendus Physique, 20 (2019), 402-418.  doi: 10.1016/j.crhy.2019.08.002.  Google Scholar

[3]

L. Boltzmann, Lectures on Gas Theory, Translated by Stephen G. Brush, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles, Calif., 1964.  Google Scholar

[4]

S. Caprino and M. Pulvirenti, The Boltzmann-Grad limit for a one-dimensional Boltzmann equation in a stationary state, Commun. Math. Phys., 177 (1996), 63-81.   Google Scholar

[5]

N. Catapano, Stime $L^\infty$ Peril Flusso di Knudsen Concondizioni Diffusive al Bordo, Master's thesis. Google Scholar

[6]

C. Cercignani, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, From basic concepts to actual calculations. Google Scholar

[7]

C. Cercignani, R. Illner and M. Pulvirenti, The Mathematical Theory of Dilute Gases, vol. 106 of Applied Mathematical Sciences, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8524-8.  Google Scholar

[8]

R. Denlinger, The propagation of chaos for a rarefied gas of hard spheres in the whole space, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 229 (2018), 885-952.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-018-1229-1.  Google Scholar

[9]

T. Dolmaire, Etude Mathématique de la Dérivation de L'équation de Boltzmann Dans un Domaine À bord, PhD thesis, Université de Paris, 2019. Google Scholar

[10]

T. Dolmaire, About Lanford's theorem in the half-space with specular reflection, 2021, arXiv: 2102.05513. Google Scholar

[11]

R. Esposito, Y. Guo, C. Kim and R. Marra, Non-isothermal boundary in the Boltzmann theory and Fourier law, Commun. Math. Phys., 323 (2013), 177-239.  doi: 10.1007/s00220-013-1766-2.  Google Scholar

[12]

R. Esposito, Y. Guo, C. Kim and R. Marra, Stationary solutions to the Boltzmann equation in the hydrodynamic limit, Ann. PDE, 4 (2018), Paper No. 1,119 pp. doi: 10.1007/s40818-017-0037-5.  Google Scholar

[13]

R. Esposito and R. Marra, Stationary non equilibrium states in kinetic theory, J. Stat. Phys., 180 (2020), 773-809.  doi: 10.1007/s10955-020-02528-w.  Google Scholar

[14]

I. Gallagher, L. Saint-Raymond and B. Texier, From Newton to Boltzmann: Hard Spheres and Short-Range Potentials, Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics, European Mathematical Society (EMS), Zürich, 2013.  Google Scholar

[15]

V. Gerasimenko and I. Gapyak, Low-density asymptotic behavior of observables of hard sphere fluids, Adv. Math. Phys., 2018 (2018), No 6252919, 11 pp. doi: 10.1155/2018/6252919.  Google Scholar

[16]

S. Goldstein, J. L. Lebowitz and E. Presutti, Mechanical system with stochastic boundaries, Random Fields. Rigorous Results in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, Esztergom 1979, Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai, 27 (1981), 403–419. Google Scholar

[17]

H. Grad, On the kinetic theory of rarefied gases, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 2 (1949), 331-407.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160020403.  Google Scholar

[18]

J.-P. Guiraud, Problème aux limites intérieur pour l'équation de Boltzmann linéaire, J. Méc., Paris, 9 (1970), 443-490.   Google Scholar

[19]

J.-P. Guiraud, Problème aux limites interieur pour l'équation de Boltzmann en regime stationnaire, faiblement non linéaire, J. Méc., Paris, 11 (1972), 183-231.   Google Scholar

[20]

R. Illner and M. Pulvirenti, Global validity of the Boltzmann equation for two- and three-dimensional rare gas in vacuum. Erratum and improved result: "Global validity of the Boltzmann equation for a two-dimensional rare gas in vacuum", [Comm. Math. Phys., 105 (1986), 189-203; MR0849204 (88d: 82061)] and "Global validity of the Boltzmann equation for a three-dimensional rare gas in vacuum" [ibid. 113 (1987), 79–85; MR0918406 (89b: 82052)] by Pulvirenti, Comm. Math. Phys., 121 (1989), 143–146, URL http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104178007.  Google Scholar

[21]

O. E. Lanford, III Time evolution of large classical systems, in Dynamical Systems, Theory and Applications (Rencontres, Battelle Res. Inst., Seattle, Wash., 1974). Lecture Notes in Phys., Vol. 38, 1975, 1–111.  Google Scholar

[22]

C. Le Bihan, Convergence D'un Système de Sphères Dures Vers une Solution de L'équation de Stokes-Fourier Avec Bord, Master's thesis, ENS de Lyon, 2019. Google Scholar

[23]

C. D. Levermore, Mathematics of Kinetic Theory, 2012, Lecture notes, https://terpconnect.umd.edu/ lvrmr/2012-2013-F/Classes/AMSC698/NOTES/Lec06.pdf. Google Scholar

[24]

M. Pulvirenti, C. Saffirio and S. Simonella, On the validity of the Boltzmann equation for short range potentials, Rev. Math. Phys., 26 (2014), 1450001, 64 pp. doi: 10.1142/S0129055X14500019.  Google Scholar

[25]

M. Pulvirenti and S. Simonella, On the evolution of the empirical measure for the hard-sphere dynamics, Bull. Inst. Math. Acad. Sin. (N.S.), 10 (2015), 171-204.   Google Scholar

[26]

H. Spohn, Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-84371-6.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  Reflection of particle $ i $ at time $ \tau $
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