Positive and asymptotic preserving approximation of the radiation transport equation

DOI10.1137/19M1260785MaRDI QIDQ5215525zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bojan Popov, J. C. Ragusa, Jean-Luc Guermond

Publication date 12 February 2020

Published in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03390

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic-preservingdiffusion limitfinite element methodpositivity-preservingradiation transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N22) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

Abstract: We introduce a (linear) positive and asymptotic preserving method or solving the one-group radiation transport equation. The approximation in space is discretization agnostic: the space approximation can be done with continuous or discontinuous finite elements (or finite volumes, or finite differences). The method is first-order accurate in space. This type of accuracy is coherent with Godunov's theorem since the method is linear. The two key theoretical results of the paper are Theorem~4.4 and Theorem~4.8. The method is illustrated with continuous finite elements. It is observed to converge with the rate $calO(h)$ in the $L^2$-norm on manufactured solutions, and it is $calO(h^2)$ in the diffusion regime. Unlike other standard techniques, the proposed method does not suffer from overshoots at the interfaces of optically thin and optically thick regions.

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