Multigrid algorithms for solving multigroup neutron transport equations

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 473-483

  Mei, Liquan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; Multigrid; Neutron transport equation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; MULTIGRID; NEUTRON TRANSPORT EQUATION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33748030082     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.11.168     Document Type: Article

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