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Fully spectral scheme for the linear BGK equation on the whole space
Abstract
In this article, we design a fully spectral method in both space and velocity for a linear inhomogeneous kinetic equation with mass, momentum and energy conservation. We focus on the linear BGK equation with a confinement potential ϕ, even if the method could be applied to different collision operators. It is based upon the projection on Hermite polynomials in velocity and orthonormal polynomials with respect to the weight e−ϕ in space. The potential ϕ is assumed to be a polynomial. It is, to the author's knowledge, the first scheme which preserves hypocoercive behavior in addition to the conservation laws. These different properties are illustrated numerically on both quadratic and double well potential.
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BibTeX
@misc{grosse2026fully,
title = {{Fully spectral scheme for the linear BGK equation on the whole space}},
author = {Bastien Grosse},
howpublished = {HAL},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
eprint = {2502.14396},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-04954144v4},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Fully spectral scheme for the linear BGK equation on the whole space
AU - Bastien Grosse
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/20
PB - HAL
UR - https://hal.science/hal-04954144v4
AB - In this article, we design a fully spectral method in both space and velocity for a linear inhomogeneous kinetic equation with mass, momentum and energy conservation. We focus on the linear BGK equation with a confinement potential ϕ, even if the method could be applied to different collision operators. It is based upon the projection on Hermite polynomials in velocity and orthonormal polynomials with respect to the weight e^−ϕ in space. The potential ϕ is assumed to be a polynomial. It is, to the author's knowledge, the first scheme which preserves hypocoercive behavior in addition to the conservation laws. These different properties are illustrated numerically on both quadratic and double well potential.
ER -