Spectral element method for vector radiative transfer equation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-446

  Zhao, J M ^a   Liu, L H ^a   Hsu, P f ^b   Tan, J Y ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Polarization; Spectral element method; Vector radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISCRETIZATION; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS; CONVERGENCE CHARACTERISTICS; CONVERGENCE RATES; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; H-REFINEMENT; HIGHER-ORDER APPROXIMATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICIPATING MEDIUM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER PROBLEMS; SEM; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; STOKES VECTOR; TEST PROBLEM; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; HEAT RADIATION; POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VECTOR;

EID: 70649083960     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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