A finite element solution of a reduced Fokker-Planck equation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(81)90248-5zbMath0464.65087OpenAlexW1979722013MaRDI QIDQ1154229

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90248-5

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell-BoltzmannRayleigh-Ritz finite element methodtensor-product splineslinearized Fokker-Planck equationmagnetic-mirror controlled-fusion devices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

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