A finite element solution of a reduced Fokker-Planck equation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(81)90248-5zbMath0464.65087MaRDI QIDQ1154229

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90248-5

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell-Boltzmann; Rayleigh-Ritz finite element method; tensor-product splines; linearized Fokker-Planck equation; magnetic-mirror controlled-fusion devices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

82B05: Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

78A25: Electromagnetic theory (general)

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

65Z05: Applications to the sciences