A discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method for a 1D prototype of the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2011.04.016zbMath1419.76440OpenAlexW1991587033MaRDI QIDQ551037

E. Harald Van Brummelen, Wijnand Hoitinga

Publication date: 13 July 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/a-discontinuous-galerkin-finiteelement-method-for-a-1d-prototype-of-the-boltzmann-equation(ea646ac4-2be2-4dba-b839-ee1a66aa55eb).html

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationdiscontinuous Galerkin methodmolecular dynamicskinetic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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