Inelastic Boltzmann equation under shear heating

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Main Authors: Carrillo, José A., Chan, Kam Fai, Duan, Renjun, Li, Zongguang
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Published: 2025
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author Carrillo, José A.
Chan, Kam Fai
Duan, Renjun
Li, Zongguang
author_facet Carrillo, José A.
Chan, Kam Fai
Duan, Renjun
Li, Zongguang
contents In this paper, we study the spatially homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation for the angular cutoff pseudo-Maxwell molecules with an additional term of linear deformation. We establish the existence of non-Maxwellian self-similar profiles under the assumption of small deformation in the nearly elastic regime, and also obtain weak convergence to these self-similar profiles for global-in-time solutions with initial data that have finite mass and finite $p$-th order moment for any $2<p\leq 4$. Our results confirm the competition between shear heating and inelastic cooling that governs the large time behavior of temperature. Specifically, temperature increases to infinity if shear heating dominates, decreases to zero if inelastic cooling prevails, and converges to a positive constant if the two effects are balanced. In the balanced scenario, the corresponding self-similar profile aligns with the steady solution.
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spellingShingle Inelastic Boltzmann equation under shear heating
Carrillo, José A.
Chan, Kam Fai
Duan, Renjun
Li, Zongguang
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper, we study the spatially homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation for the angular cutoff pseudo-Maxwell molecules with an additional term of linear deformation. We establish the existence of non-Maxwellian self-similar profiles under the assumption of small deformation in the nearly elastic regime, and also obtain weak convergence to these self-similar profiles for global-in-time solutions with initial data that have finite mass and finite $p$-th order moment for any $2<p\leq 4$. Our results confirm the competition between shear heating and inelastic cooling that governs the large time behavior of temperature. Specifically, temperature increases to infinity if shear heating dominates, decreases to zero if inelastic cooling prevails, and converges to a positive constant if the two effects are balanced. In the balanced scenario, the corresponding self-similar profile aligns with the steady solution.
title Inelastic Boltzmann equation under shear heating
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13960