The diffusion limit of transport equations derived from velocity-jump processes

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 751-775

  Hillen, Thomas ^a   Othmer, Hans G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Chemotaxis equations; Diffusion approximation; Transport equations; Velocity jump processes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TENSORS; VELOCITY;

CHEMOTAXIS EQUATIONS; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; VELOCITY-JUMP PROCESSES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0034917420     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139999358167     Document Type: Article

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