An Implicit Monte Carlo Method for Rarefied Gas Dynamics: I. the Space Homogeneous Case

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-116

  Pareschi, Lorenzo ^b   Caflisch, Russel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Fluid dynamic limit; Implicit time discretizations; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; GAS DYNAMICS;

ANALYTIC REPRESENTATION; BOLTZMANN'S EQUATIONS; FLUID DYNAMIC LIMITS; HYBRID MONTE-CARLO METHODS; IMPLICIT MONTE CARLO; IMPLICIT TIME DISCRETIZATION; MONTECARLO METHODS; RAREFIED GAS DYNAMICS; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TIME STEP;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0001140574     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6301     Document Type: Article

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