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A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows

Ben Evans Orcid Logo, Ken Morgan, Oubay Hassan Orcid Logo, Kenneth Morgan Orcid Logo

Applied Mathematical Modelling, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 996 - 1015

Swansea University Authors: Ben Evans Orcid Logo, Oubay Hassan Orcid Logo, Kenneth Morgan Orcid Logo

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling
ISSN: 0307-904X
Published: 2011
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title A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
spellingShingle A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
Ben Evans
Oubay Hassan
Kenneth Morgan
title_short A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
title_full A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
title_fullStr A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
title_full_unstemmed A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
title_sort A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows
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