Existence and convergence to equilibrium of a kinetic model for cometary flows

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 1481-1499

  Fellner, Klemens ^a   Poupaud, Frederic ^b   Schmeiser, Christian ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Cometary flows; Convergence to equilibrium; Kinetic equation; Wave particle collision operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543000521     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:joss.0000013956.08390.b1     Document Type: Article

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