Infinite product expansion of the Fokker–Planck equation with steady-state solution
Author(s) -
R. J. Martin,
Richard V. Craster,
M.J. Kearney
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1471-2946
pISSN - 1364-5021
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.2015.0084
Subject(s) - fokker–planck equation , computation , product (mathematics) , steady state (chemistry) , matching (statistics) , term (time) , mathematics , statistical physics , planck , state (computer science) , mathematical analysis , physics , algorithm , differential equation , quantum mechanics , statistics , chemistry , geometry
We present an analytical technique for solving Fokker–Planck equations that have a steady-state solution by representing the solution as an infinite product rather than, as usual, an infinite sum. This method has many advantages: automatically ensuring positivity of the resulting approximation, and by design exactly matching both the short- and long-term behaviour. The efficacy of the technique is demonstrated via comparisons with computations of typical examples.
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