On the numerical accuracy of the Fokker-Planck approximation to the hierarchy of master equations

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1993.1043zbMath0766.65113OpenAlexW1968749975MaRDI QIDQ1209871

M. Vicanek, Christopher A. Stone, Nasr M. Ghoniem

Publication date: 16 May 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1993.1043

zbMATH Keywords

momentsthermodynamic limitFokker-Planck equationBrownian motionbirth and death processesmaster equationLangevin equationsFokker-Planck approximationagglomeration of atomic clustersthin film formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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