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Gi-Chan Bae

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arXiv2026

Measure-valued free-energy minimizers for trapped bosons with repulsive Coulomb interaction

We study a free-energy minimization problem for a trapped semiclassical Bose gas with repulsive Coulomb self-interaction. Because the bosonic entropy density has zero recession slope, the natural relaxation is posed over nonnegative finite Radon measures on phase space, and a minimizer may have a singular component. We interpret this component as condensation within the relaxed semiclassical model. We prove existence and uniqueness at every positive temperature, derive the Euler-Lagrange contact condition and an obstacle-type formula for the condensed density, and establish sharp phase boundaries under only the standing continuity assumptions on the trap. At fixed mass there is a unique finite positive critical temperature, with condensation precisely below it. At fixed temperature there is a sharp critical mass, possibly infinite, separating normal and condensed minimizers. For harmonic traps we obtain a sharp confinement-strength dichotomy. We also prove an abstract conditional variational-stability statement for measure-valued curves that conserve mass and satisfy the free-energy inequality.

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arXiv2026

Quantitative Closure Analysis toward Ideal Fluids

We establish the incompressible low--Mach/high--Reynolds limit for the Boltzmann equation for a broad class of initial data, without recourse to any asymptotic expansion. Exploiting the local Maxwellian manifold and the macro--micro decomposition in a new quasi-linear analysis, we derive quantitative estimates for the purely microscopic fluctuation, as well as bounds for the kinetic vorticity and the entropic fluctuation in terms of the initial data. As a consequence, in two space dimensions, the rescaled velocity and temperature converge to a global solution of the incompressible Euler equations coupled to a transported temperature, within the frameworks of DiPerna--Lions--Majda and Delort.

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arXiv2024

On the comparison between phenomenological and kinetic theories of gas mixtures with applications to flocking

We study the compression between the phenomenological and kinetic models for a mixture of gases from the viewpoint of collective dynamics. In the case in which constituents are Eulerian gases, balance equations for mass, momentum, and energy are the same in the main differential part, but production terms due to the interchanges between constituents are different. They coincide only when the thermal and mechanical diffusion are sufficiently small. In this paper, we first verify that both models satisfy the universal requirements of conservation laws of total mass, momentum, and energy, Galilean invariance and entropy principle. Following the work of Ha and Ruggeri (ARMA 2017), we consider spatially homogeneous models which correspond to the generalizations of the Cucker Smale model with the thermal effect. In these circumstances, we provide analytical results for the comparison between two resulting models and also present several numerical simulations to complement analytical results.

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arXiv2023

Numerical schemes for a multi-species quantum BGK model

This work is devoted to the numerical implementation of the quantum Bhatnagar- Gross-Krook (BGK) model for gas mixtures consisting of classical and quantum particles (fermions, bosons). We consider the model proposed by Bae, Klingenberg, Pirner, and Yun in 2021 and implement an Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) scheme due to the stiffness of the collision operator. A major obstacle is updating the parameters of quantum local equilibrium, which requires computing by inverting the relation between density and energy at every grid point in space and time. We address this difficulty by using the Lagrange multiplier method to minimize a potential function subject to constraints defined by specific moment equalities. Moreover, we analyze the convergence of mean velocity and temperature between the species both analytically and numerically. When a quantum component is included, we observe that the converging quantity is physical temperature, not the kinetic temperature. This differs from the mixture of classical species.

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arXiv2023

Large amplitude problem of BGK model: Relaxation to quadratic nonlinearity

Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation is a relaxation model of the Boltzmann equation which is widely used in place of the Boltzmann equation for the simulation of various kinetic flow problems. In this work, we study the asymptotic stability of the BGK model when the initial data is not necessarily close to the global equilibrium pointwisely. Due to the highly nonlinear structure of the relaxation operator, the argument developed to derive the bootstrap estimate for the Boltzmann equation leads to a weaker estimate in the case of the BGK model, which does not exclude the possible blow-up of the perturbation. To overcome this issue, we carry out a refined analysis of the macroscopic fields to guarantee that the system transits from a highly nonlinear regime into a quadratic nonlinear regime after a long but finite time, in which the highly nonlinear perturbative term relaxes to essentially quadratic nonlinearity.

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arXiv2022

BGK model for multi-component gases near a global Maxwellian

In this paper, we establish the existence of the unique global-in-time classical solutions to the multi-component BGK model suggested in \cite{mixmodel} when the initial data is a small perturbation of global equilibrium. For this, we carefully analyze the dissipative nature of the linearized multi-component relaxation operator, and observe that the partial dissipation from the intra-species and the inter-species linearized relaxation operators are combined in a complementary manner to give rise to the desired dissipation estimate of the model We also observe that the convergence rate of the distribution function increases as the momentum-energy interchange rate between the different components of the gas increases.

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arXiv2021

The Shakhov model near a global Maxwellian

Shakhov model is a relaxation approximation of the Boltzmann equation proposed to overcome the deficiency of the original BGK model, namely, the incorrect production of the Prandtl number. In this paper, we address the existence and the asymptotic stability of the Shakhov model when the initial data is a small perturbation of global equilibrium. We derive a dichotomy in the coercive estimate of the linearized relaxation operator between zero and non-zero Prandtl number, and observe that the linearized relaxation operator is more degenerate in the former case. To remove such degeneracy and recover the full coercivity, we consider a micro-macro system that involves an additional non-conservative quantity related to the heat flux.

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arXiv2020

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation near equilibrium

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation (or the relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation) describes the dynamics of single-species fast-moving quantum particles. With the recent development of the relativistic quantum mechanics, the relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation has been widely used in physics and engineering such as in the quantum collision experiments and the simulations of electrons in graphene. In spite of such importance, there has been no mathematical theory on the existence of solutions for the relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation to the best of authors' knowledge. In this paper, we prove the global existence of a unique classical solution to the relativistic Boltzmann equation for both bosons and fermions when the initial distribution is nearby a global equilibrium.

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arXiv2019

BGK model of the multi-species Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation

We propose a BGK model of the quantum Boltzmann equation for gas mixtures. We also provide a sufficient condition that guarantees the existence of equilibrium coefficients so that the model shares the same conservation laws and $H$-theorem with the quantum Boltzmann equation. Unlike the classical BGK for gas mixtures, the equilibrium coefficinets of the local equilibiriums for quantum multi-species gases are defined through highly nonlinear relations that are not explicitly solvable. We verify in a unified way that such nonlinear relations uniquely determine the equilibrium coefficients under the condition, leading to the well-definedness of our model.

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arXiv2019

Stationary quantum BGK model for bosons and fermions in a bounded interval

In this paper, we consider the existence problem for a stationary relaxational models of the quantum Boltzmann equation. More precisely, we establish the existence of mild solution to the fermionic or bosonic quantum BGK model in a slab with inflow boundary data. Unlike the classical case, it is necessary to verify that the quantum local equilibrium state is well-defined, and the transition from the non-condensed state to the condensated state (Bosons), or from the non-saturated state to the saturated state (Fermions) does not arise in our solution space.

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arXiv2018

Quantum BGK model near a global Fermi-Dirac distribution

In this paper, we consider the existence and asymptotic behavior of the fermionic quantum BGK model, which is a relaxation model of the quantum Boltzmann equation for fermions. More precisely, we establish the existence of unique classical solutions and their exponentially fast stabilization when the initial data starts sufficiently close to a global Fermi-Dirac distribution. A key difficulty unobserved in the study of the classical BGK model is that we must verify that the equilibrium parameters is uniquely determined through a set of nonlinear equations in each iteration step.

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