On the Approximation of the Fokker–Planck Equation of the Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic Dumbbell Model I: A New Weighted Formulation and an Optimal Spectral-Galerkin Algorithm in Two Dimensions

DOI10.1137/100795929zbMath1250.82033OpenAlexW2086145524MaRDI QIDQ2903030

Hai-jun Yu, Jie Shen

Publication date: 23 August 2012

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/100795929

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsFokker-Planck equationspectral Galerkin algorithmpolymer moleculeJacobi-Galerkin methodsecond-order Crank-Nicolson scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84)

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