Convergence of the stochastic weighted particle method for the Boltzmann equation

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1589-1609

  Matheis, Ingo ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Convergence; Numerical experiment; Stochastic weighted particle method; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; STOCHASTIC WEIGHTED PARTICLE METHOD; VARIANCE REDUCTION; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0141906263     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827502406014     Document Type: Article

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