Mathematical aspects of the fluctuating barrier problem. Explicit equilibrium and relaxation solutions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 458-470

  Ankerhold, Joachim ^a,b   Pechukas, Philip ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluctuation phenomena; Nonequilibrium kinetics; Probability theory; Random processes

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

FLUCTUATING BARRIER PROBLEM; FOKKER-PLANK EQUATION; NONEQUILIBRIUM KINETICS; SMOLUCHOWSKI LIMIT EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS;

KINETIC THEORY;

EID: 0032291089     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00296-9     Document Type: Article

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