Adaptive approach to variational nodal diffusion problems

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 14-22

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Lewis, E E ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ADAPTIVE GRID METHOD; DIFFUSION EQUATION; NEUTRON DIFFUSION; VARIATIONAL NODAL DIFFUSION PROBLEM;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 0035156177     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE01-A2172     Document Type: Article

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