A probabilistic study of the influence of parameter uncertainty on solutions of the radiative transfer equation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 696-707

  Williams, M M R ^a   Eaton, Matthew ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polynomial chaos; Probability; Transport theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; DETERMINISTIC EQUATIONS; EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; MULTI-GROUP; NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS THEORY; RADIATION INTENSITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; ROD MODEL; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; TRANSFER EQUATION; TRANSMISSION PROBLEM; TRANSPORT THEORY;

ABSORPTION; HEAT RADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CHAOS THEORY;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CHAOS THEORY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PROBABILITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOCHASTICITY; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 74649085792     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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