Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma Dynamics: Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Salice Terme, Italy, 26-30 September 1988

ISBN-13: 9783540535454 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 228 str.

Giuseppe Toscani;Vinicio Boffi;Salvatore Rionero

Opis

The proceedings of an international workshop which explored the mathematical aspects of fluid plasma dynamics. Topics discussed included numerical problems in semiconductor device simulation, canical propagators for nonlinear systems and semiconductor modelling using the Boltzmann models.

Spis treści

Modeling intense relativistic electron beams.- On the asymptotic theory of the Boltzmann and Enskog equations a rigorous H-theorem for the Enskog equation.- On some numerical problems in semiconductor device simulation.- Canonical propagators for nonlinear systems: Theory and sample applications.- Singularity formation for vortex sheets and hyperbolic equations.- Exact exponential type solutions to the discrete Boltzmann models.- Semiconductor modelling via the Boltzmann equation.- Functional-analytic techniques in the study of time-dependent electron swarms in weakly ionized gases.- Further results in the nonlinear stability of the magnetic Bénard problem.- Particle transport in nonhomogeneous media.- Some recent results on swirling flows of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.- Evaporation and condensation of a rarefied gas between its two parallel plane condensed phases with different temperatures and negative temperature-gradient phenomenon — Numerical analysis of the boltzmann equation for hard-sphere molecules —.- Rigorous solution to the extended kinetic equations for homogeneous gas mixtures.