A discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method for a 1D prototype of the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2011.04.016zbMath1419.76440MaRDI QIDQ551037

E. Harald Van Brummelen, Wijnand Hoitinga

Publication date: 13 July 2011

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/a-discontinuous-galerkin-finiteelement-method-for-a-1d-prototype-of-the-boltzmann-equation(ea646ac4-2be2-4dba-b839-ee1a66aa55eb).html

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equation; discontinuous Galerkin method; molecular dynamics; kinetic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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