Download or read book Stochastic Numerics for the Boltzmann Equation written by Sergej Rjasanow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic numerical methods play an important role in large scale computations in the applied sciences. The first goal of this book is to give a mathematical description of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) procedures for rarefied gases, using the theory of Markov processes as a unifying framework. The second goal is a systematic treatment of an extension of DSMC, called stochastic weighted particle method. This method includes several new features, which are introduced for the purpose of variance reduction (rare event simulation). Rigorous convergence results as well as detailed numerical studies are presented.