Variable order spherical harmonic expansion scheme for the radiative transport equation using finite elements

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.06.004MaRDI QIDQ655059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Surya Mohan, Tanja Tarvainen, Martin Schweiger, Aki Pulkkinen, Simon Arridge

Publication date 28 December 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.06.004

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesfinite element methodMonte Carlo simulationscomparison of methodsradiative transport equationoptical tomography\(P_{N}\) approximationspherical harmonic expansionvariable order \(P_{N}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

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