Fast Spectral Methods for the Fokker-Planck-Landau Collision Operator

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 216-236

  Pareschi, L ^a   Russo, G ^b   Toscani, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fast Fourier transform; Fokker Planck Landau equation; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COLLISION OPERATORS; DETERMINISTICS; ENERGY; FOKKE-PLANCK-LANDAU EQUATION; FOKKER PLANCK; LANDAU EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SPECTRAL ACCURACY; SPECTRAL METHODS; TOTAL MASS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 0009597026     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6612     Document Type: Article

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