Higher order Fokker-Planck operators

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 390-397

  Pomraning, G C ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

FOKKER-PLANCK OPERATORS; HENYEY-GREENSTEIN SCATTERING; HIGHER ORDER DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; LINEAR TRANSPORT EQUATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0030289233     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A17918     Document Type: Article

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