Connecting a discrete ionic simulation to a continuum

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 850-873

  Nadler, B ^a   Naeh, T ^a   Schuss, Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Renewal theory; Simulation of ions; Stationary stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; PROBABILITY;

RENEWAL THEORY;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0038165965     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139901393688     Document Type: Article

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