Boltzmann Equation: Micro-Macro Decompositions and Positivity of Shock Profiles

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 133-179

  Liu, Tai Ping ^a,b   Yu, Shih Hsien ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Taiwan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 1842591085     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-003-1030-2     Document Type: Article

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