Uniform convergence of an upwind discontinuous Galerkin method for solving scaled discrete-ordinate radiative transfer equations with isotropic scattering

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3670zbMATH Open1491.65150arXiv2009.11356OpenAlexW3174753365MaRDI QIDQ4956920FDOQ4956920

Authors: Qiwei Sheng, Cory D. Hauck 

Publication date: 2 September 2021

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an error analysis for the discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the discrete-ordinate discretization of the steady-state radiative transfer equation. Under some mild assumptions, we show that the DG method converges uniformly with respect to a scaling parameter $varepsilon$ which characterizes the strength of scattering in the system. However, the rate is not optimal and can be polluted by the presence of boundary layers. In one-dimensional slab geometries, we demonstrate optimal convergence when boundary layers are not present and analyze a simple strategy for balance interior and boundary layer errors. Some numerical tests are also provided in this reduced setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11356

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zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysisdiscontinuous Galerkinradiative transfer equationasymptotic preservingdiscrete-ordinate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Wave scattering in solid mechanics (74J20) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) First-order hyperbolic systems (35L40) Radiative heat transfer (80A21)

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