Tests algorithm described by Morel, Larsen, and Matzen ¹ using test problem from Fleck and Cummings ².

Implementation of radiative diffusion calculation, both accelerated and unaccelerated.

Final project and report for NCSU NE795 Special Topics: Problems in High Energy-Density Physics.

Footnotes

1. J. E. Morel, E. W. Larsen, and M. Matzen, “A synthetic acceleration scheme for radiative diffusion calculations,” Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 243–261, 1985. ↩

2. J. A. Fleck Jr and J. Cummings Jr, “An implicit monte carlo scheme for calculating time and frequency dependent nonlinear radiation transport,” Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 313–342, 1971. ↩