Abstract

An acceleration method is proposed particularly for the P1 equation. The radiative energy balance is used as a constraint to correct iterative solutions. The method not only accelerates convergence but also preserves the radiative energy balance, the latter being of great importance when radiation calculations are coupled with flow calculations. This acceleration method can be applied to other elliptical problems with boundary conditions of the second and/or the third kind.

Issue Section:
Technical Notes
Keywords:
Computational, Numerical Methods, Radiation, Acceleration, Iterative Method, convergence of numerical methods, iterative methods, heat radiation
Topics:
Boundary-value problems, Energy budget (Physics), Iterative methods, Radiation (Physics), Numerical analysis
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