Streamline upwind Petrov-Galerkin methods for the steady-state Boltzmann transport equation

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 195, Issue 33-36, 2006, Pages 4448-4472

  Pain, C C ^a   Eaton, M D ^a   Smedley Stevenson, R P ^b   Goddard, A J H ^a   Piggott, M D ^a   de Oliveira, C R E ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Shock capturing; Steady state radiation transport; Streamline upwind Petrov Galerkin

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SHOCK CAPTURING; STEADY-STATE RADIATION TRANSPORT; STREAMLINE UPWIND PETROV-GALERKIN;

GALERKIN METHODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33646480911     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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