A differentially weighted Monte Carlo method for two-component coagulation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6931-6945

  Zhao, Haibo ^a,b   Kruis, F Einar ^b   Zheng, Chuguang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Multivariate population balance; Statistical noise; Stochastic method; Weighting scheme

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; MONTECARLO METHODS; MULTIVARIATE POPULATION BALANCE; POPULATION BALANCE MODELLING; POPULATION BALANCES; STATISTICAL NOISE; STOCHASTIC METHODS; TWO-COMPONENT; WEIGHTED MONTE CARLO; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

COAGULATION;

EID: 77955281669     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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