The incompressible Navier-Stokes for the nonlinear discrete velocity models

Abstract

We establish the incompressible Navier--Stokes limit for the discrete velocity model of the Boltzmann equation in any dimension of the physical space, for densities which remain in a suitable small neighborhood of the global Maxwellian. Appropriately scaled families solutions of discrete Boltzmann equation are shown to have fluctuations that locally in time converge strongly to a limit governed by a solution of Incompressible Navier--Stokes provided that the initial fluctuation is smooth, and converges to appropriate initial data. As applications of our results, we study the Carleman model and the one-dimensional Broadwell model.