Analysis and improvements of the DPN acceleration technique for the method of characteristics in unstructured meshes

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-193

  Santandrea, Simone ^a   Sanchez, Richard ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

COLLISION PROBABILITY (CP); KRYLOV ITERATIONS; THERMAL ITERATION;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 10444226679     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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