Acoustic limit for the Boltzmann equation in optimal scaling

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-361

  Guo, Yan ^a   Jang, Juhi ^b   Jiang, Ning ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952505530     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20308     Document Type: Article

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