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<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Técnica de la Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad del Zulia]]></journal-title>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Un enfoque variacional de la ecuación de Boltzmann bajo una condición de Poisson]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A variational approach of stationary Boltzmann equation under a condition of Poisson type]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Almanza Caro]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Galeano Andrade]]></surname>
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<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[A functional is defined on a subset of L2 ( ), with bounded and so that the divergence theorem is valid. It shows that this functional is differentiable, coercive and weakly lower semi-continuous bound, and therefore has critical points which coincide with the solutions of the stationary Boltmann equation solutions under a condition of Poisson.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ecuación de Boltzmann]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Teoría Cinética, existencia de puntos críticos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Boltzmann equitation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Kinetic Theory]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p align="center"><font face="Verdana"><b>A variational approach of  stationary Boltzmann  equation under a condition of Poisson type</b></font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><b>  Un enfoque variacional de la ecuación de Boltzmann  bajo una condición de Poisson</b></font></p>     <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>     <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  Mario Enrique Almanza Caro<sup>1</sup>, Rafael Galeano Andrade<sup>2</sup></font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <sup>1 </sup>Instituto de Matemáticas Aplicadas, Universidad de Cartagena,  Postal: 130015,  Fax: (095) 6753718, <a href="mailto:malmanzac@unicartagena.edu.co"> malmanzac@unicartagena.edu.co</a> . </font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><sup>2</sup> Instituto de  Matemáticas Aplicadas,  Universidad de Cartagena, Postal: 130015, Fax: (095) 6753718,  <a href="mailto:rgaleanoa@unicartagena.edu.co">rgaleanoa@unicartagena.edu.co</a></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>Abstract</b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  A functional is defined on a subset of L2 ( ), with bounded and so that the  divergence theorem is  valid. It shows that this functional is differentiable, coercive and weakly  lower semi-continuous bound,  and therefore has critical points which coincide with the solutions of the  stationary Boltmann equation  solutions under a condition of Poisson.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>Key words: </b>Boltzmann equitation, Kinetic Theory, existence critical  points.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>Resumen</b></font></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  Se define un funcional sobre un subconjunto de L2 ( ), con acotado y tal que el  Teorema de la Divergencia  sea válido. Se prueba que este funcional es diferenciable, coercivo y débilmente  semicontinuo  inferiormente y por tanto tiene puntos críticos que coinciden con las soluciones  de las soluciones de la  ecuación estacionaria de Boltmann bajo una condición de Poisson.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>Palabras clave:</b> ecuación de Boltzmann, Teoría Cinética, existencia de  puntos críticos.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Recibido el 9 de Mayo de 2012  En forma revisada el 10 de Junio de 2013</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> <img border="0" src="/img/fbpe/rtfiuz/v36n3/art10.1.jpg" width="342" height="329"></font></p>     
<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> <img border="0" src="/img/fbpe/rtfiuz/v36n3/art10.2.jpg" width="335" height="302"></font></p>     
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<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>     ]]></body>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><b>3. Result</b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  Theorem. Let Rn with the same hypothesis  of Lemma 1 and J(u) defined in (3), u, v,  u', v' belonging to B1(0) (unit ball), then J has a  critical point which is solution of (1).  Proof. The previous lemmas and the Theorem  5.5 of [21] guarantee that there exist z H,  such that z is a global minimum and J' (z ) 0,  i.e., is solution of (1).</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>4. Conclusion</b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  In this article has been shown that a solution  stationary Boltzmann equation in a bounded  domain in L2( ) exists. The existence has been  proved through variational methods, defining a  functional and showing that it is differentiable,  coercive and weakly lower semi-continuous  bound and that therefore has critical points which are solutions of the  stationary Boltzmann  equation.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  Although, we’ve been achieved satisfactory  results, we could try to seek solutions to the  Boltzmann equation in general domains in L1( ),  as well as to reflect on whether the variational  methods throw some result in this way and at the  same time find methods that prove uniqueness of  the solution.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">  <b>Bibliography</b>  &nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">1. Ukay, S.; Yang, T. and Zhao,  H. “Stationary  solutions to the exterior problems for the  Boltzmann Equation Existence. Discrete and  Continuous Dynamical Systems”, Vol. 23,  No.152 (2009).  &nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2">2. Arkeryd, L. and Nouri, A.  “On the Stationary  Povzner equation in three Space Variables”.  Journal of Mathematics Kyoto University,  Vol. 39. (1999), 115-153.  &nbsp;</font></p>     ]]></body>
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