A mixed variational framework for the radiative transfer equation
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Abstract: The numerical solution of time-dependent radiative transfer problems is challenging, both, due to the high dimension as well as the anisotropic structure of the underlying integro-partial differential equation. In this paper we propose a general framework for designing numerical methods for time-dependent radiative transfer based on a Galerkin discretization in space and angle combined with appropriate time stepping schemes. This allows us to systematically incorporate boundary conditions and to preserve basic properties like exponential stability and decay to equilibrium also on the discrete level. We present the basic a-priori error analysis and provide abstract error estimates that cover a wide class of methods. The starting point for our considerations is to rewrite the radiative transfer problem as a system of evolution equations which has a similar structure like first order hyperbolic systems in acoustics or electrodynamics. This analogy allows us to generalize the main arguments of the numerical analysis for such applications to the radiative transfer problem under investigation. We also discuss a particular discretization scheme based on a truncated spherical harmonic expansion in angle, a finite element discretization in space, and the implicit Euler method in time. The performance of the resulting mixed PN-finite element time stepping scheme is demonstrated by computational results.
The paper is concerned with presenting a variational framework for the analysis and discretisaton of the radiative transfer equation. Results are provided on weak and strong solutions and a range of numerical methods is considered with particular focus on approximation using Galerkin methods and a finite element example.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main contributions of the work, apart from the proposed variational framework, are the derivation of simple conditions for stability and quasi-optimal error estimates for Galerkin approximations, and a rigorous derivation of a second order form of the radiative transfer equation.
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