On the Rate of Relaxation for the Landau Kinetic Equation and Related Models
On the Rate of Relaxation for the Landau Kinetic Equation and Related Models
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朗道动力学方程及相关模型的弛豫率研究
DOI:
10.1007/s10955-017-1814-y
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Zhang, Chenglong
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作者:
Bobylev, Alexander;Gamba, Irene M.;Zhang, Chenglong
We study the rate of relaxation to equilibrium for Landau kinetic equation and some related models by considering the relatively simple case of radial solutions of the linear Landau-type equations. The well-known difficulty is that the evolution operator has no spectral gap, i.e. its spectrum is not separated from zero. Hence we do not expect purely exponential relaxation for large values of time. One of the main goals of our work is to numerically identify the large time asymptotics for the relaxation to equilibrium. We recall the work of Strain and Guo (Arch Rat Mech Anal 187:287–339 2008, Commun Partial Differ Equ 31:17–429 2006), who rigorously show that the expected law of relaxation iswith some. In this manuscript, we find an heuristic way, performed by asymptotic methods, that finds this “law of two thirds”, and then study this question numerically. More specifically, the linear Landau equation is approximated by a set of ODEs based on expansions in generalized Laguerre polynomials. We analyze the corresponding quadratic form and the solution of these ODEs in detail. It is shown that the solution has two different asymptotic stages for large values of timetand maximal order of polynomialsN: the first one focus on intermediate asymptotics which agrees with the “law of two thirds” for moderately large values of timetand then the second one on absolute, purely exponential asymptotics for very larget, as expected for linear ODEs. We believe that appearance of intermediate asymptotics in finite dimensional approximations must be a generic behavior for different classes of equations in functional spaces (some PDEs, Boltzmann equations for soft potentials, etc.) and that our methods can be applied to related problems.
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作者:
I. Potapenko;A. V. Bobylev;E. Mossberg
通讯作者:
E. Mossberg