On the approximation of the Fokker-Planck equation by moment systems

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/14/4/314zbMath1019.82014OpenAlexW1987631199MaRDI QIDQ2730688

Michael Junk, Matthias Kunik, Wolfgang Dreyer

Publication date: 29 July 2001

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/14/4/314

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationRiemann problemskinetic equationsmoment approximationsmaximum-entropy closureHermite/Grad approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Initial value problems for higher-order hyperbolic equations (35L30)

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