Transport via mass transportation

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 311-338

  Kinderlehrer, David ^a   Tudorascu, Adrian ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretized gradient flow; Fokker Planck equations; Hamilton Jacobi equations; Optimal mass transportation; Transport equations; Velocity jump processes; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644550663     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2006.6.311     Document Type: Article

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