A quasilinear implicit Riemann solver for the time-dependent Pn equations

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-299

  McClarren, Ryan G ^a   Holloway, James Paul ^a   Brunner, Thomas A ^b   Mehlhorn, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

IMPLICIT RIEMANN SOLVER; NONLINEAR SOLVER; SPHERICAL HARMONICS APPROXIMATION; TIME DEPENDENCE;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33847358240     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE07-A2663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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