A Discrete-Ordinate Discontinuous-Streamline Diffusion Method for the Radiative Transfer Equation. (2nd November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Cheng; Sheng, Qiwei; Han, Weimin
• Is Part Of: Communications in computational physics. Volume 20:Number 5(2016:Nov.)
• Page Start: 1443
• Page End: 1465
• Publication Date: 2016-11-02
• Subjects: 65N30, -- 65R20; Radiative transfer equation, -- discrete-ordinate method, -- discontinuous-streamline diffusion method, -- stability, -- error estimation; Mathematical physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 530.150285
• DOI: 10.4208/cicp.310715.290316a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1815-2406

Abstract

Abstract: The radiative transfer equation (RTE) arises in many different areas of science and engineering. In this paper, we propose and investigate a discrete-ordinate discontinuous-streamline diffusion (DODSD) method for solving the RTE, which is a combination of the discrete-ordinate technique and the discontinuous-streamline diffusion method. Different from the discrete-ordinate discontinuous Galerkin (DODG) method for the RTE, an artificial diffusion parameter is added to the test functions in the spatial discretization. Stability and error estimates in certain norms are proved. Numerical results show that the proposed method can lead to a more accurate approximation in comparison with the DODG method.