A Markov process associated with a Boltzmann equation without cutoff and for non-Maxwell molecules

Citation
N. Fournier et S. Meleard, A Markov process associated with a Boltzmann equation without cutoff and for non-Maxwell molecules, J STAT PHYS, 104(1-2), 2001, pp. 359-385
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
ISSN journal
00224715 → ACNP
Volume
104
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
359 - 385
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4715(200107)104:1-2<359:AMPAWA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Tanaka,((18)) showed a way to relate the measure solution {P-t}(t) of a spa tially homogeneous Boltzmann equation of Maxwellian molecules without angul ar cutoff to a Poisson-driven stochastic differential equation: {P-t} is th e flow of time marginals of the solution of this stochastic equation. In th e present paper, we extend this probabilistic interpretation to much more g eneral spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equations. Then we derive from this interpretation a numerical method for the concerned Boltzmann equations, by using easily simulable interacting particle systems.