On The Asymptotic Equivalence of the Fokker-Planck and Diffusion Equations
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Transport Theory and Statistical Physics
- Vol. 12 (2) , 109-127
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00411458308224572
Abstract
It is shown that the difference between the density computed from the Fokker-Planck equation and the solution of a diffusion equation with related initial data behaves like an inverse power of t, for large time t.Keywords
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