The Comparison of Finite Difference Methods for Radiation Diffusion Equations

In this paper, the difference between the Alternating Direction Method (ADM) and the Non-Splitting Method (NSM) is investigated, while both methods applied to the simulations for 2-D multimaterial radiation diffusion issues. Although the ADM have the same accuracy orders with the NSM on the uniform meshes, the accuracy of ADM will decrease on the distorted meshes or the boundary of domain. Numerical experiments are carried out to confirm the theoretical predication.

Authors:

• Ren Jian
• Yang Shulin

Keywords:

• Alternating Direction Method
• Non-SplittingMethod
• Radiation Diffusion.

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