Shock and boundary structure formation by Spectral-Lagrangian methods for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann transport equation

Journal of Computational Mathematics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 430-460

  Gamba, Irene M ^a   Tharkabhushanam, Sri Harsha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Transport Equation; Conservative and non conservative rarefied gas flows; FFT; Lagrangian optimization; Spectral Numerical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955321718     PISSN: 02549409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/jcm.1003-m0011     Document Type: Article

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