Randomly accelerated particle in a box: Mean absorption time for partially absorbing and inelastic boundaries

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Kotsev, Stanislav N ^a   Burkhardt, Theodore W ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATIONS; INELASTIC BOUNDARIES; MEAN ABSORPTION; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; WHITE NOISE;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 37649030487     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046115     Document Type: Article

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