Convex duality and entropy-based moment closures: Characterizing degenerate densities

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1977-2015

  Hauck, Cory D ^a   Levermore, C David ^b   Tits, André L ^c  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex duality; Convex optimization; Entropy based closures; Gas dynamics; Kinetic theory; Moment equations; Optimization in function spaces

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONALS; CONVEX CONES; CONVEX DUALITIES; CONVEX DUALITY; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; FINITE SETS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTIONS; KINETIC TRANSPORTS; MACROSCOPIC DENSITIES; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MOMENT CLOSURES; MOMENT EQUATIONS; SPACE DESCRIPTIONS;

CONES; ENTROPY; GAS DYNAMICS; GASES; KINETIC THEORY; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TOPOLOGY;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 55549148422     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070691139     Document Type: Article

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