A deterministic photon free method to solve radiation transfer equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-85

  Chang, Britton ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Newton GMRES; Nonlinear systems; Radiation transport

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT RADIATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DETERMINISTICS; LINEAR METHODS; MULTI-GROUP; NEWTON-GMRES; NONLINEAR HEAT EQUATION; RADIATION TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; REDUCED SETS; SCATTERING MATERIALS; SEMI-IMPLICIT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33846869324     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.06.048     Document Type: Article

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