Preserving monotonicity in anisotropic diffusion

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-142

  Sharma, Prateek ^a,b   Hammett, Gregory W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Finite differencing

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS; DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCING; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; LARGE TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; MONOTONICITY; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; SYMMETRIC ALGORITHMS; THERMAL CONDUCTION;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

EID: 35348829824     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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