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A Structure Preserving Scheme for the Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck Equation

Numerical Analysis 2014-11-06 v2

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a numerical scheme which preserves the long time behavior of solutions to the Kolmogorov equation. The method presented is based on a self-similar change of variables technique to transform the Kolmogorov equation into a new form, such that the problem of designing structure preserving schemes, for the original equation, amounts to building a standard scheme for the transformed equation. We also present an analysis for the operator splitting technique for the self-similar method and numerical results for the described scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1411.1019,
  title  = {A Structure Preserving Scheme for the Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck Equation},
  author = {Erich L Foster and Jérôme Lohéac and Minh-Binh Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.1019},
  year   = {2014}
}