Physics-Based Preconditioning and the Newton-Krylov Method for Non-equilibrium Radiation Diffusion

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 743-765

  Mousseau, V A ^a   Knoll, D A ^a   Rider, W J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jacobian free Newton Krylov; Multigrid; Radiation diffusion

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; JACOBIAN MATRICES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CELL COUPLING; JACOBIAN-FREE NEWTON-KRYLOV; MULTIGRIDS; NEWTON'S METHODS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM RADIATION; OPERATOR-SPLITTING; PRECONDITIONERS; RADIATION DIFFUSIONS; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; SYSTEM OF NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

EID: 0000109908     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6488     Document Type: Article

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