Acceleration schemes for the discrete ordinates method

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-451

  Fiveland, W A ^a,b   Jessee, J P ^a  

^a BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMBUSTION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION EFFECTS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DISCRETE ORDINATES METHODS; MESH REBALANCE METHODS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; NEUTRON TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; ORDER OF DISCRETE ORDINATES APPROXIMATION; OVERRELAXATION; RELAXATION FACTOR; SPATIAL COORDINATES; SYNTHETIC ACCELERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 0030190118     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.809     Document Type: Article

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