Exponential decay in time of solutions of the viscous quantum hydrodynamic equations

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1273-1278

  Gualdani, M P ^a   Jungel A ^a   Toscani, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entropy dissipation method; Long time behavior of solutions; Quantum hydrodynamics; Wigner Fokker Planck equation

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROSTATICS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; QUANTUM THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

ENTROPY DISSIPATION METHOD; EXPONENTIAL DECAY; VISCOUS QUANTUM HYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; WIGNER-FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 0242694996     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(03)90128-5     Document Type: Article

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