High order numerical methods for the space non-homogeneous Boltzmann equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 457-480

  Filbet, Francis ^a   Russo, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Rarefied gas dynamics; Spectral methods; Splitting algorithms

Indexed keywords

GAS DYNAMICS; GASES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOLTZMANN'S EQUATIONS; HIGH-ORDER NUMERICAL METHOD; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RAREFIED GAS; RAREFIED GAS DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL METHODS; SPLITTING ALGORITHMS; SPLITTING TECHNIQUES; TIME SPLITTING;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

EID: 0037431128     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00065-2     Document Type: Article

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