A microscopic mechanism for the porous medium equation

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 147-182

  Fenga, Shui ^a   Iscoe, Ian ^a,c   Seppäläinen, Timo ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Algorithmics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic scaling limit; Porous medium equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031588878     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4149(96)00121-4     Document Type: Article

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