Analysis of the boundary layer equation in the kinetic theory of gases

François Golse (1, 2)

1 LJLL - Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
2 CMLS - Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz

The present paper completes an earlier result by S. Ukai, T. Yang, and S.-H. Yu [Commun. Math. Phys. 236 (2003), 373--393] on weakly nonlinear half-space problems for the steady Boltzmann equation with hard-sphere potential.

Keywords: Boltzmann equation; Boundary layers; Half-space problem

Domains: Mathematics [math]; Analysis of PDEs [math.AP]; Physics [physics]; Mathematical Physics [math-ph]; Mathematics [math]; Mathematical Physics [math-ph]

François Golse. Analysis of the boundary layer equation in the kinetic theory of gases. Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica (New Series), 2008, 3 (1), pp.211-242. ⟨hal-00587592⟩