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Energy Transport in Matter with Rapidly Changing States

W. Höbel, B. Goel, A. L. Ni, H. Marten

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 137 / Number 3 / March 2001 / Pages 334-351

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE01-A2193

The Godunov method that tracks nonstationary fronts and interfaces as boundaries of subregions moving with time is extended to include radiation transport. In each subregion and at each time step, a new grid is created by use of boundary-fitted coordinates. The radiation transport is performed in a multiangle-multifrequency approach. The numerical method is based on a finite volume method in the space time-domain, and the hydrodynamic fluxes are calculated using the solution of Riemann problems. Numerical results are shown for some selected problems to demonstrate the efficiency of this approach.