An evaluation of the difference formulation for photon transport in a two level system (Q1777037)

This paper is concerned with the accuracy and performance of the difference formulation relative to the Symbolic Implicit Monte Carlo (SIMC) method applied to the formulation of photon transport in a strongly absorbing/emitting two level system using the gray approximation. Three different numerical treatments of the difference formulation are presented with differing levels of implicitness and comparison is made with SMIC method with regard to the accuracy and performance. It is noticed that the explicit treatment of the source terms in the standard formulation is stable in the limit of optically thin systems, while the explicit source term treatment of the difference formulation is stable in the limit of optically thick systems. The paper may be of interested to some one working in the field of numerical analysis or scientific computing.