Quantitative Closure Analysis toward Ideal Fluids

Abstract

We establish the incompressible low--Mach/high--Reynolds limit for the Boltzmann equation for a broad class of initial data, without recourse to any asymptotic expansion. Exploiting the local Maxwellian manifold and the macro--micro decomposition, together with dispersive control of the acoustic component, we obtain quantitative estimates on the purely microscopic fluctuation, as well as a control of the entropic fluctuation and a kinetic vorticity in terms of their initial data. As a consequence, in two space dimensions the rescaled velocity and temperature converge to a global solution in the sense of DiPerna--Lions--Majda and Delort of the incompressible Euler equations with an advected temperature.