Scalable angular adaptivity for Boltzmann transport

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.109124MaRDI QIDQ2223283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. Dargaville, A. G. Buchan, Richard P. Smedley-Stevenson, Paul N. Smith, C. C. Pain

Publication date 28 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04929

zbMATH Keywords

Haar waveletsfast wavelet transformgoal-basedBoltzmann transportangular adaptivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

Abstract: This paper describes an angular adaptivity algorithm for Boltzmann transport applications which for the first time shows evidence of $mathcalO(n)$ scaling in both runtime and memory usage, where $n$ is the number of adapted angles. This adaptivity uses Haar wavelets, which perform structured $h$-adaptivity built on top of a hierarchical P${}_0$ FEM discretisation of a 2D angular domain, allowing different anisotropic angular resolution to be applied across space/energy. Fixed angular refinement, along with regular and goal-based error metrics are shown in three example problems taken from neutronics/radiative transfer applications. We use a spatial discretisation designed to use less memory than competing alternatives in general applications and gives us the flexibility to use a matrix-free multgrid method as our iterative method. This relies on scalable matrix-vector products using Fast Wavelet Transforms and allows the use of traditional sweep algorithms if desired.

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