Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation [electronic resource] :Lectures from a Special Semester at the Centre Émile Borel, Institut H. Poincaré, Paris, 2001 / by Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, Cédric Villani ; edited by François Golse, Stefano Olla.
by Rezakhanlou, Fraydoun [author.]; Villani, Cédric [author.]; Golse, François [editor.]; Olla, Stefano [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics: 1916Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.Description: online resource.ISBN: 9783540737056.Subject(s): Mathematics | Differential equations, partial | Distribution (Probability theory) | Mathematics | Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes | Partial Differential Equations | Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational PhysicsDDC classification: 519.2 Online resources: Click here to access online
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Springer eBooksSummary: Entropy and entropy production have recently become mathematical tools for kinetic and hydrodynamic limits, when deriving the macroscopic behaviour of systems from the interaction dynamics of their many microscopic elementary constituents at the atomic or molecular level. During a special semester on Hydrodynamic Limits at the Centre Émile Borel in Paris, 2001 two of the research courses were held by C. Villani and F. Rezakhanlou. Both illustrate the major role of entropy and entropy production in a mutual and complementary manner and have been written up and updated for joint publication. Villani describes the mathematical theory of convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation and its relation to various problems and fields, including information theory, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and fluid mechanics. Rezakhanlou discusses four conjectures for the kinetic behaviour of the hard sphere models and formulates four stochastic variations of this model, also reviewing known results for these.
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Entropy and entropy production have recently become mathematical tools for kinetic and hydrodynamic limits, when deriving the macroscopic behaviour of systems from the interaction dynamics of their many microscopic elementary constituents at the atomic or molecular level. During a special semester on Hydrodynamic Limits at the Centre Émile Borel in Paris, 2001 two of the research courses were held by C. Villani and F. Rezakhanlou. Both illustrate the major role of entropy and entropy production in a mutual and complementary manner and have been written up and updated for joint publication. Villani describes the mathematical theory of convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation and its relation to various problems and fields, including information theory, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and fluid mechanics. Rezakhanlou discusses four conjectures for the kinetic behaviour of the hard sphere models and formulates four stochastic variations of this model, also reviewing known results for these.
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