On existence of spatially regular strong solutions for a class of transport equations

Abstract

The paper considers existence of spatially regular solutions for a class of linear Boltzmann transport equations. The related transport problem is an (initial) inflow boundary value problem. This problem is characteristic with variable multiplicity, that is, the rank of the boundary matrix (here a scalar) is not constant on the boundary. It is known that for these types of (initial) boundary value problems the full higher order Sobolev regularity cannot generally be established. In this paper we present Sobolev regularity results for solutions of linear Boltzmann transport problems when the data belongs to appropriate anisotropic Sobolev spaces whose elements are zero on the inflow and characteristic parts of the boundary.