Expansion Of The Fokker Planck Equation In Spherical Harmonics

Download or read book Spherical Harmonic Reduction of the Fokker-planck Equation written by Thomas A. Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fokker-Planck equation is reduced to aform that is useful from the viewpoint of doing practical calculations of problems involving configuration space as well as velocity space. The basic technique is a spherical harmonic decomposition in velocity space that reduces the number of independent variables by two. As an example, we show how to apply this method to a problem with theta-pinch geometry.