A Monte Carlo Synthetic Acceleration Method for the Non-Linear, Time-Dependent Diffusion Equation

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2009

OSTI ID:952216

Evans, Thomas M ^[1]; Mosher, Scott W ^[1]

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We present a synthetic-acceleration based Monte Carlo method for solving the 1T thermal radiation diffusion equations. We show that this method can be an effective solver for sparse matrix systems. We also discuss its general applicability to broader classes of problems.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 952216
• Resource Relation: Conference: M&C 2009, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, 20090503, 20090507
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
ACCELERATION
DIFFUSION EQUATIONS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
THERMAL RADIATION