"A Rigorous Derivation of a Linear Kinetic Equation of Fokker-Planck Type in the Limit of Grazing Collisions."

L. DESVILLETTES, V. RICCI

Abstract :

We rigorously derive a linear kinetic equation of Fokker-Planck type for a 2-D Lorentz gas in which the obstacles are randomly distributed. Each obstacle of the Lorentz gas generates a compactly supported potential which is suitably scaled. We prove that the probability density of a test particle converges to a solution of our kinetic equation.