Goal-based angular adaptivity for Boltzmann transport in the presence of ray-effects
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Publication:6328550
DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2020.109759arXiv1911.01747MaRDI QIDQ6328550FDOQ6328550
Authors: S. Dargaville, Richard P. Smedley-Stevenson, Paul N. Smith, C. C. Pain 
Publication date: 5 November 2019
Abstract: Boltzmann transport problems often involve heavy streaming, where particles propagate long distance due to the dominance of advection over particle interaction. If an insufficiently refined non-rotationally invariant angular discretisation is used, there are areas of the problem where no particles will propogate. These "ray-effects" are problematic for goal-based error metrics with angular adaptivty, as the metrics in the pre-asymptotic region will be zero/incorrect and angular adaptivity will not occur. In this work we use low-order filtered spherical harmonics, which is rotationally invariant and hence not subject to ray-effects, to "bootstrap" our error metric and enable highly refined anisotropic angular adaptivity with a Haar wavelet angular discretisation. We test this on three simple problems with pure streaming where we know a priori where refinement should occur. We show our method is robust and produces adapted angular discretisations that match the results produced by fixed refinement with either reduced runtime or a constant additional cost with angular refinement.
Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M10)
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