Hierarchical angular preconditioning for the finite element-spherical harmonics radiation transport method

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  de Oliveira, C R E ^a   Pain, C C ^a   Eaton, M D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; MULTI-GRID; MULTIGRID METHODS; PRECONDITIONERS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952377630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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