Published January 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Kinetics equations: a French history

  • 1. Wolfang Pauli Institute - WPI, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien (Austria)
  • 2. Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris (France)
  • 3. Institut CNRS Pauli, UMI2842, Wien University, Wien (Austria)

Description

Kinetic equations appear in a lot of domains from astrophysics to nuclear energy, to semi-conductor technology or spatial flights. In the CEA (Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) the Boltzmann equation was studied and as this kinetic equation cannot be solved directly, the approximation of the diffusion equation applied to neutron transport was developed for dimensioning the first nuclear reactor cores. (A.C.)

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Original title (French)
Equations cinetiques: une histoire francaise

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Gazette des Mathematiciens
Journal Issue
no.155
Journal Page Range
p. 25-37
ISSN
0224-8999

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