Standard and goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement applied to radiation transport on 2D unstructured triangular meshes

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 763-788

  Wang, Yaqi ^a   Ragusa, Jean C ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Discontinuous finite element techniques; Discrete ordinates method; Error estimates; Goal oriented mesh refinement; Radiation transport

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; ERRORS; GALERKIN METHODS; HEAT RADIATION; MESH GENERATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REACTION RATES;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; DISCONTINUOUS FINITE ELEMENT; DISCONTINUOUS FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUE; DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD; ERROR ESTIMATES; FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES; GOAL-ORIENTED; GOAL-ORIENTED MESH REFINEMENT; MESH REFINEMENT; RADIATION TRANSPORT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78649318505     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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