Chebyshev spectral methods for radiative transfer

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2074-2094

  Kim, Arnold D ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chebyshev spectral method; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

CHEBYSHEV SPECTRAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0036449714     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827500382312     Document Type: Article

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