Self-adaptive spherical wavelets for angular discretizations of the Boltzmann transport equation

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 244-263

  Buchan, A G ^a   Pain, C C ^a   Eaton, M D ^a   Smedley Stevenson, R P ^a,b   Goddard, A J H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANGULAR DISCRETIZATIONS; ANISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; PARTICLE STREAMING;

WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 40749138243     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE08-A2751     Document Type: Article

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