The stochastic collocation method for radiation transport in random media

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 646-659

  Fichtl, Erin D ^a,b   Prinja, Anil K ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Karhunen Lo ve expansions; Radiation transport; Random media; Stochastic collocation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR FLUX; COVARIANCE FUNCTION; CROSS SECTION; DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT; DIFFUSIVE MEDIA; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; FINITE NUMBER; GAUSS QUADRATURE RULES; GAUSSIAN RANDOM PROCESS; GAUSSIAN RANDOM VARIABLE; HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; LOG-NORMAL; MEMORYLESS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RANDOM INPUT; RANDOM MEDIA; SCALAR FLUXES; SPARSE GRID; SPECTRAL EXPANSIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STOCHASTIC COLLOCATION; STOCHASTIC COLLOCATION METHOD; TRANSMISSION FUNCTION;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

CROSS SECTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 78751580672     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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