Home Browse by Subject Bestsellers New Titles Editor's Choice New Reviews Textbooks
Search Book Series Study Guides Rights Inspection Copy Contact Us Join Our Mailing List
For Authors How to Order E-Catalogues

Browse all Subjects
Search Bookshop
New Titles
Editor's Choice
Bestsellers
Book Series
Textbooks
Journals
Join Our Mailing List
 
Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences - Vol. 22

ADVANCES IN KINETIC THEORY AND COMPUTING: SELECTED PAPERS

edited by B Perthame (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

This selection of 8 papers discusses "Equations of Kinetic Physics" with emphasis on analysis, modelling and computing. The first 3 papers are on numerical methods for Vlasov-Poisson and Vlasov-Maxwell Equations — Comparison between Particles and Eulerian Methods (G Manfredi and M R Feix), Computing BGK Instability with Eulerian Codes (M R Feix, Pertrand & A Ghieco) and Coupling Particles and Eulerian Methods (S Mas-Gallic and P A Raviart) — Followed by a survey of kinetic and macroscopic models for semiconductor devices — Boltzmann Equation, Drift-Diffusion Models (F Poupaud). In addition, there are 2 papers on the modelling and analysis of singular perturbation problems arising in plasma physics — Derivation of the Child-Lagmuyr Emission Laws (P Degond) and Euler Models with Small Pressure Terms (F Bouchut) — followed by two papers on the analysis and numerical analysis of the Boltzmann equations — Symmetry Properties in the Polynomials Arising in Chapman-Enskog Expansion (L Desvillettes and F Golse) and A General Introduction to Computing the Boltzmann Equations with Random Particle Methods (B Perthame).


Contents:

  • Vlasov-Poisson in Plasma Physics: The Child-Langmuir Law in the Kinetic Theory of Charged-Particles. Part 1, Electron Flows in Vacuum (P Degond)
  • Eulerian Codes for the Vlasov Equation (M R Feix et al.)
  • Mathematical Models of Ion Extraction and Plasma Sheaths (S Mas-Gallic & P A Raviart)
  • Quantum Mechanics and Semiconductors: Transport Equations for Quantum Plasmas (G Manfredi & M R Feix)
  • Mathematical Theory of Kinetic Equations for Transport Modelling in Semiconductors (F Poupaud)
  • Boltzmann Equations and Gas Dynamics: On Zero Pressure Gas Dynamics (F Bouchut)
  • A Remark Concerning the Chapman-Enskog Asymptotics (L Desvillettes & F Golse)
  • Introduction to the Theory of Random Particle Methods for Boltzmann Equation (B Perthame)


Readership: Applied mathematicians.

228pp Pub. date: Sept 1994
ISBN 981-02-1671-8 US$65 / £45


Copyright © 2008 World Scientific Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Updated on 23 July 2008