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A convergence proof for Nanbu's simulation method for the full Boltzmann equation

Hans Babovsky, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1989 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 1, pp 45-65
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In this paper, it was shown that the discrete measures given by the Nanbu simulation method converge with respect to the weak topology of measures to solutions of the Boltzmann equation.
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It is shown that the discrete measures given by the Nanbu simulation method converge with respect to the weak topology of measures to solutions of the Boltzmann equation. The main conditions for this result are that the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann equation has a sufficiently smooth solution and that the discretization parameters (cell size, timestep and test particle number) satisfy suitable constraints.

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TL;DR: In this article, the probability density of a gas in the space K is defined in terms of the probability that a gas particle will collide with another gas particle at time t in a given position x and velocity f. The operator Q describes binary collisions of gas particles and the function q is determined by the corresponding interaction potential.