A fast-forward solver of radiative transfer equation

Transport Theory and Statistical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-192

  Gao, Hao ^a   Zhao, Hongkai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin method; Discrete ordinate method; Henyey Greenstein function; Multigrid; Radiative transfer equation; Source iteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449509580     PISSN: 00411450     EISSN: 15322424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00411450903187722     Document Type: Article

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