On deterministic particle methods for solving Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck systems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1473-1519

  Havlak, Karl J ^a   Victory Jr , Harold Dean ^b  

^a TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Particle methods; Splitting methods; Vlasov Poisson Fokker planck kinetic equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346963466     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142996302529     Document Type: Article

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