A second order radiative transfer equation and its solution by meshless method with application to strongly inhomogeneous media

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2012.08.020zbMATH Open1291.65311arXiv1105.1207OpenAlexW1983878746MaRDI QIDQ2249386FDOQ2249386

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 1 July 2014

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

Abstract: A new second order form of radiative transfer equation (named MSORTE) is proposed, which overcomes the singularity problem of a previously proposed second order radiative transfer equation [J. Comput. Phys. 214 (2006) 12-40 (where it was termed SAAI), Numer. Heat Transfer B 51 (2007) 391-409] in dealing with inhomogeneous media where some locations have very small/zero extinction coefficient. The MSORTE contains a naturally introduced diffusion (or second order) term which provides better numerical property than the classic first order radiative transfer equation (RTE). The stability and convergence characteristics of the MSORTE discretized by central difference scheme is analyzed theoretically, and the better numerical stability of the second order form radiative transfer equations than the RTE when discretized by the central difference type method is proved. A collocation meshless method is developed based on the MSORTE to solve radiative transfer in inhomogeneous media. Several critical test cases are taken to verify the performance of the presented method. The collocation meshless method based on the MSORTE is demonstrated to be capable of stably and accurately solve radiative transfer in strongly inhomogeneous media, media with void region and even with discontinuous extinction coefficient.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1207

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zbMATH Keywords

meshless methodradiative heat transfersecond order radiative transfer equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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