Conservative and Entropy Decaying Numerical Scheme for the Isotropic Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 228-245

  Buet, C ^a   Cordier, S ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cauchy problem; Entropy; Fokker Planck Landau equation; Kinetic models; Numerical scheme; System of ordinary differential equations

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CAUCHY PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; FOKKE-PLANCK-LANDAU EQUATION; FOKKER PLANCK; ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ISOTROPICS; KINETIC MODELS; LANDAU EQUATION; NUMERICAL SCHEME; SYSTEMS OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 0039498698     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6015     Document Type: Article

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