Uniformly accurate diffusive relaxation scheme! for multiscale transport equations

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 913-936

  Jin, Shi ^a   Pareschi, Lorenzo ^b   Toscani, Giuseppe ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion limit; Diffusive relaxation schemes; Stiff terms; Transport equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034436875     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142998347978     Document Type: Article

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