Approximation of Parabolic Equations Using the Wasserstein Metric

DOI10.1051/m2an:1999166zbMath0936.65121OpenAlexW2146469851MaRDI QIDQ4702149

David Kinderlehrer, Noel J. Walkington

Publication date: 8 February 2000

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/197465

zbMATH Keywords

heat equationFokker-Planck equationWasserstein metricStefan problemvariational methodconvection-diffusion equationstime discretizationparabolic initial-boundary value problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Heat equation (35K05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15)

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