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Item Open Access A convergent method for linear half-space kinetic equations(2017-04-23) Li, Q; Lu, J; Sun, WWe give a unified proof for the well-posedness of a class of linear half-space equations with general incoming data and construct a Galerkin method to numerically resolve this type of equations in a systematic way. Our main strategy in both analysis and numerics includes three steps: adding damping terms to the original half-space equation, using an inf-sup argument and even-odd decomposition to establish the well-posedness of the damped equation, and then recovering solutions to the original half-space equation. The proposed numerical methods for the damped equation is shown to be quasi-optimal and the numerical error of approximations to the original equation is controlled by that of the damped equation. This efficient solution to the half-space problem is useful for kinetic-fluid coupling simulations.Item Open Access Diffusion approximations and domain decomposition method of linear transport equations: Asymptotics and numerics(Journal of Computational Physics, 2015-07-01) Li, Q; Lu, J; Sun, W© 2015 Elsevier Inc.In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist. The diffusion equations and their data are derived from asymptotic and layer analysis which allows general scattering kernels and general data. We apply the half-space solver in [20] to resolve the boundary layer equation and obtain the boundary data for the diffusion equation. The algorithms are validated by numerical experiments and also by error analysis for the pure diffusive scaling case.Item Open Access Half-space kinetic equations with general boundary conditions(Mathematics of Computation, 2017-01-01) Li, Q; Lu, J; Sun, W© 2016 American Mathematical Society.We study half-space linear kinetic equations with general boundary conditions that consist of both given incoming data and various types of reflections, extending our previous work on half-space equations with incoming boundary conditions. As in our previous work, the main technique is a damping adding-removing procedure. We establish the well-posedness of linear (or linearized) half-space equations with general boundary conditions and quasioptimality of the numerical scheme. The numerical method is validated by examples including a two-species transport equation, a multi-frequency transport equation, and the linearized BGK equation in 2D velocity space.Item Open Access Validity and Regularization of Classical Half-Space Equations(Journal of Statistical Physics, 2017-01-01) Li, Q; Lu, J; Sun, W© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.Recent result (Wu and Guo in Commun Math Phys 336(3):1473–1553, 2015) has shown that over the 2D unit disk, the classical half-space equation (CHS) for the neutron transport does not capture the correct boundary layer behaviour as long believed. In this paper we develop a regularization technique for CHS to any arbitrary order and use its first-order regularization to show that in the case of the 2D unit disk, although CHS misrepresents the boundary layer behaviour, it does give the correct boundary condition for the interior macroscopic (Laplace) equation. Therefore CHS is still a valid equation to recover the correct boundary condition for the interior Laplace equation over the 2D unit disk.