Numerical experiments on noisy chains: From collective transitions to Nucleation-diffusion

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-219

  Castro, Mario ^a   Lythe, Grant ^b  

^a Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nucleation; Passage time; Stochastics

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; NUCLEATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DIFFUSION REGIMES; EFFECTIVE POTENTIALS; IF THERE ARES; NOISE AMPLITUDES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PASSAGE TIME; PASSAGE TIMES; SPACE DIMENSIONS; STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTICS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 57249110720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070695514     Document Type: Article

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