Convergence to Global Equilibrium for Spatially Inhomogeneous Kinetic Models of Non-Micro-Reversible Processes

Monatshefte fur Mathematik

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 289-299

  Fellner, Klemens ^a   Neumann, Lukas ^b,c   Schmeiser, Christian ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Entropy dissipation; Kinetic transport equations; Long time asymptotics; Relative entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142838409     PISSN: 00269255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-002-0058-2     Document Type: Article

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