Transport synthetic acceleration with opposing reflecting boundary conditions

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 159-170

  Zika, Michael R ^a   Adams, Marvin L ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; REFLECTING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRANSPORT SYNTHETIC ACCELERATION (TSA) METHOD;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 0033881082     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE00-A2108     Document Type: Article

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