On regularity of a Kinetic Boundary layer

Abstract

We study the nonlinear steady Boltzmann equation in the half space, with phase transition and Dirichlet boundary condition. In particular, we study the regularity of the solution to the half-space problem in the situation that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. We propose a novel kinetic weight and establish a weighted $C^1$ estimate under the spatial domain $x\in [0,\infty)$, which is unbounded and not strictly convex. Additionally, we prove the $W^{1,p}$ estimate without any weight for $p<2$.