A low-variance deviational simulation Monte Carlo for the Boltzmann equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 2341-2358

  Homolle, Thomas M M ^a   Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Nanoscale gas flow; Numerical solution; Particle method; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHMIC STRUCTURE; BOLTZMANN'S EQUATIONS; COLLISION INTEGRAL; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; INTEGRAL FORMULATIONS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE GAS FLOW; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTICLE METHODS; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

FLOW OF GASES;

EID: 34548663326     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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