The kinetic boundary layer for the Klein-Kramers equation: A new numerical approach

DOI10.1007/BF01010986zbMath0604.76069MaRDI QIDQ1083321

U. M. Titulaer, Jonathan V. Selinger

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

Langevin equation; variational method; numerical simulation; eigenfunction expansion; Milne problem; albedo problem; coagulation of colloidal suspensions; diffusion-controlled reactions; kinetic boundary layer; Klein- Kramers equation; noninteracting Brownian particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

82B40: Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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