Rigorous Asymptotic and Moment-Preserving Diffusion Approximations for Generalized Linear Boltzmann Transport in Arbitrary Dimension

DOI10.1080/00411450.2014.910231zbMath1305.82055arXiv1312.1412MaRDI QIDQ2921219

Eugene D'Eon

Publication date: 7 October 2014

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1412

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximation; Padé approximation; multiple scattering; classical transport theory; random flights; linear transport theory; correlated random media; generalized linear Boltzmann equation; rod model; beta-prime random flights; chi-random flights; classical \(P_1\) diffusion model; delta-random flights; gamma-random flights; generalized radiative transfer equation; modified diffusion; non-exponential random flights; two-stream approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82B41: Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82C70: Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics

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