Hypocoercivity for kinetic equations with linear relaxation terms

Details Hypocoercivity for kinetic equations with linear relaxation terms Hypocoercivity for kinetic equations with linear relaxation terms

2008-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3493v2

Comptes Rendus Mathematique 347, 9-10 (2009) 511-516

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Analysis of PDEs

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This note is devoted to a simple method for proving hypocoercivity of the solutions of a kinetic equation involving a linear time relaxation operator, i.e. the construction of an adapted Lyapunov functional satisfying a Gronwall-type inequality. The method clearly distinguishes the coercivity at microscopic level, which directly arises from the properties of the relaxation operator, and a spectral gap inequality at the macroscopic level for the spatial density, which is connected to the diffusion limit. It improves on previously known results. Our approach is illustrated by the linear BGK model and a relaxation operator which corresponds at macroscopic level to the linearized fast diffusion.

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