Asymptotic properties of the inelastic Kac model

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 1453-1480

  Pulvirenti, Ada ^a   Toscani, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boltzmann like dissipative equations; Granular gases; Long time behavior of solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543013213     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:joss.0000013964.98706.00     Document Type: Article

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