Variance-reduced particle simulation of the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation-time approximation

We present an efficient variance-reduced particle simulation technique for solving the linearized Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation-time approximation used for phonon, electron, and radiative transport, as well as for kinetic gas flows. The variance reduction is achieved by simulating o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Radtke, Gregg A., Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51324
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1670-2264