RCTS Analysis Seminar


DATE2015-11-03 15:10-16:00

PLACE數學館 3 樓會議室

SPEAKER陳逸昆教授(京都大學

TITLEOn Boundary Singularity in Kinetic Theory

ABSTRACT We will investigate singular behaviors near the boundary , which is unique in kinetic theory. We first introduce two kinds of singularity: logarithmic singularity of macroscopic variables and logarithmic singularity of the velocity distribution functions. Both of them are verified in analysis on the thermal transpiration problem. For hard sphere potential, a bootstrap strategy is applied to obtain an asymptotic formula for gradient of moments of solutions in the functional space from known existence results. We further investigate the gases with cut-off hard potential. A technique of using the Holder type continuity of the integral operator to obtain integrability of the derivatives of the macroscopic variables is developed. We establish the asymptotic approximation for the gradient of the moments. Our analysis indicates the logarithmic singularity of the gradient of some moments. In particular, our theorem holds for the condensation and evaporation problems.