We present the formulation of a conservative spectral scheme for Boltzmann collision operators with anisotropic scattering mechanisms to model grazing collision limit regimes approximating the solution to the Landau equation in space homogeneous setting. The scheme is based on the conservative spectral method of Gamba and Tharkabhushanam [17, 18]. This formulation is derived from the weak form of the Boltzmann equation, which can represent the collisional term as a weighted convolution in Fourier space. Within this framework, we also study the rate of convergence of the Fourier transform for the Boltzmann collision operator in the grazing collisions limit to the Fourier transform for the Landau collision operator for a family of non-integrable angular scattering cross sections. We analytically show that the decay rate to equilibrium depends on the parameters associated with the collision cross section, and specifically study numerically the differences between the classical Rutherford scattering angular cross section, which has logarithmic error in approximating Landau, and an artificial cross section with a linear error.
An IMEX multi-level domain-decomposition method for the Boltzmann equation on unstructured meshes
Université Côte d’Azur(蔚蓝海岸大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);University of Ferrara(费拉拉大学);Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences(麦克斯韦数学科学研究所);Heriot-Watt University(赫瑞瓦特大学)