Fast algorithms for integral formulations of steady-state radiative transfer equation

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.12.014zbMATH Open1451.65234arXiv1802.03061OpenAlexW2785562783WikidataQ128684228 ScholiaQ128684228MaRDI QIDQ2214535FDOQ2214535

Yu-Wei Fan, Lexing Ying, Jing An

Publication date: 9 December 2020

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate integral formulations and fast algorithms for the steady-state radiative transfer equation with isotropic and anisotropic scattering. When the scattering term is a smooth convolution on the unit sphere, a model reduction step in the angular domain using the Fourier transformation in 2D and the spherical harmonic transformation in 3D significantly reduces the number of degrees of freedoms. The resulting Fourier coefficients or spherical harmonic coefficients satisfy a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. We study the uniqueness of the equation and proved an a priori estimate. For a homogeneous medium, the integral equation can be solved efficiently using the FFT and iterative methods. For an inhomogeneous medium, the recursive skeletonization factorization method is applied instead. Numerical simulations demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithms in both homogeneous and inhomogeneous cases and for both transport and diffusion regimes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03061




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