Kinetic schemes and boundary conditions for moment equations

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 346-365

  Struchtrup, Henning ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Kinetic theory of gases; Moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034342143     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000330050002     Document Type: Article

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