Universal Formula for the Mean First Passage Time in Planar Domains

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 26, 2016, Pages

  Grebenkov, Denis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

ARBITRARY SPACES; BIOCHEMICAL KINETICS; DIFFUSING PARTICLES; FRACTAL DOMAINS; HARMONIC MEASURE; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; NEUMANN BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; UNIVERSAL FORMULAS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 85007044465     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.260201     Document Type: Article

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