A note on the entropy production of the radiative transfer equation

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 111-116

  Gabetta, E ^a   Markowich, P A ^b   Unterreiter, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convex Sobolev inequality; Entropy; Entropy production; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041857837     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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