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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812587603321

Titolo

Recent advances in the theory and applications of mass transport : summer school on mass transportation methods in kinetic theory and hydrodynamics, September 4-9, 2000, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal / / M.C. Carvalho, J.F. Rodrigues, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-8218-7943-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 353

Disciplina

530.4/75

Soggetti

Mass transfer

Kinetic theory of matter

Hydrodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Numerical analysis of a multi-phasic mass transport problem""; ""Extension of the Monge�Kantorovich theory to classical electrodynamics""; ""The Monge Ampere equation and optimal transportation""; ""Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and spectral gaps""; ""Non-smooth differential properties of optimal transport""; ""Inequalities for generalized entropy and optimal transportation""; ""Trend to equilibrium for dissipative equations, functional inequalities and mass transportation""