A Galerkin method for the simulation of the transient 2-D/2-D and 3-D/3-D linear Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/s10915-005-9069-1zbMath1167.76029MaRDI QIDQ877849

Timothy S. Cale, Matthias K. Gobbert, Samuel G. Webster

Publication date: 3 May 2007

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-005-9069-1

zbMATH Keywords

finite element method; cluster computing; chemical vapor deposition; collocation basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

76M22: Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65Y05: Parallel numerical computation

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

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Uses Software

• WENO

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