Elliptic PDE formulation and boundary conditions of the spherical harmonics method of arbitrary order for general three-dimensional geometries

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1641-1666

  Modest, Michael F ^a   Yang, Jun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High order; Radiative transfer equation; Spherical harmonics; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ARBITRARY ORDER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 43149089353     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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