Non-classical diffusion equations related to birth-death processes with two boundaries

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 423-443

  Mansourati, Z G ^a   Campbell, L L ^b  

^a NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; PROBABILITY;

BIRTH DEATH PROCESSES; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; HEAT EQUATION; NON CLASSICAL DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 0030242862     PISSN: 0033569X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/qam/1402403     Document Type: Article

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