Modified finite-volume method based on a cell vertex scheme for the solution of radiative transfer problems in complex 3D geometries

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2661-2675

  Trovalet, Lionel ^a   Jeandel, Gérard ^a   Coelho, Pedro J ^b   Asllanaj, Fatmir ^a  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cell vertex scheme; Complex 3D geometries; Finite volume method; Radiative transfer; Unstructured tetrahedral meshes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX 3D GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; GRID REFINEMENT; PARTICIPATING MEDIUM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER PROBLEMS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TETRAHEDRON ELEMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; UNSTRUCTURED TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; WALL HEAT TRANSFER;

CELLS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MESH GENERATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80053194727     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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