Fractional diffusion limit for collisional kinetic equations: A moments method

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1333-1360

  Mellet, Antoine ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion limit; Anomalous diffusive time scale; Asymptotic analysis; Diffusion limit; Fractional diffusion; Kinetic equations; Linear Boltzmann equation; Relaxation equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954442335     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2010.59.4128     Document Type: Article

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