New insights into the numerical solution of the Boltzmann transport equation for photons

DOI10.3934/krm.2014.7.433zbMath1304.35474OpenAlexW2332321981MaRDI QIDQ2514511

Taposh Kumar Das, Oscar Lopez-Pouso

Publication date: 3 February 2015

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2014.7.433

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationnumerical approximationradiotherapyphoton transportexpansion in orders of scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65N99) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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