Numerical analysis of conservative and entropy schemes for the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 953-973

  Buet, C ^a   Cordier, S ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cauchy problem; Fokker Planck Landau equation; Kinetic models; Numerical schemes; System of ordinary differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000449286     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142997322102     Document Type: Article

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