Accurate and efficient radiation transport in optically thick media - by means of the symbolic implicit Monte Carlo method in the difference formulation

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue , 2006, Pages 255-282

  Szoke, Abraham ^a   Brooks III, Eugene D ^a   McKinley, Michael Scott ^a   Daffin, Frank C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATION; IMPLICIT MONTE CARLO; PHOTON TRANSPORT EQUATION; PLANCK DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPECIFIC INTENSITY; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84880342370     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28125-8_12     Document Type: Article

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