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The Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM) is the most widely used velocity discretization method for simulating the radiative transport equation. However, the ray effect is a long-standing drawback of DOM. In benchmark tests that exhibit the ray…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Lei Li , Min Tang , Yuqi Yang

The Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM) is widely used for velocity discretization in radiative transport simulations. However, DOM tends to exhibit the ray effect when the velocity discretization is not sufficiently refined, a limitation that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Lei Li , Min Tang , Yuqi Yang

Solving the radiation transport equation is a challenging task, due to the high dimensionality of the solution's phase space. The commonly used discrete ordinates (S$_N$) method suffers from ray effects which result from a break in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Thomas Camminady , Martin Frank , Kerstin Küpper , Jonas Kusch

The quasi-random discrete ordinates method (QRDOM) is here proposed for the approximation of transport problems. Its central idea is to explore a quasi Monte Carlo integration within the classical source iteration technique. It preserves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Pedro H. A. Konzen , Leonardo F. Guidi , Thomas Richter

Ray effect usually appears in the radiative transfer when using discrete ordinates method (DOM) in the simulations. The cause and remedy for the ray effect have been intensively investigated in the radiation community. For rarefied gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

The quasi-random discrete ordinates method (QRDOM) is here proposed for the approximation of transport problems. Its central idea is to explore a quasi Monte Carlo integration within the classical source iteration technique. It preserves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Pedro H. A. Konzen , Leonardo F. Guidi , Thomas Richter

Solving the radiative transfer equation with the discrete ordinates (S$_N$) method leads to a non-physical imprint of the chosen quadrature set on the solution. To mitigate these so-called ray effects, we propose a modification of the S$_N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Martin Frank , Jonas Kusch , Thomas Camminady , Cory D. Hauck

Applications such as uncertainty quantification and optical tomography, require solving the radiative transfer equation (RTE) many times for various parameters. Efficient solvers for RTE are highly desired. Source Iteration with Synthetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Zhichao Peng

The radiative transfer equation (RTE) arises in many different areas of science and engineering. In this paper, we propose and investigate a discrete-ordinate discontinuous-streamline diffusion (DODSD) method for solving the RTE, which is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Cheng Wang , Qiwei Sheng , Weimin Han

In this work, we prove rigorous error estimates for a hybrid method introduced in [15] for solving the time-dependent radiation transport equation (RTE). The method relies on a splitting of the kinetic distribution function for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Victor P. DeCaria , Cory D. Hauck

The discrete ordinates method (DOM) of solution to the 1D radiative transfer equation has been an effective method of solution for nearly 70 years. During that time, the method has experienced numerous improvements as numerical and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 B. D. Ganapol

Semi-discrete optimal transport (SOT), which maps a continuous probability measure to a discrete one, is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications. Entropic regularization is often employed to solve the SOT problem, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Moaad Khamlich , Francesco Romor , Gianluigi Rozza

Nonlinear parametric inverse problems appear in many applications. Here, we focus on diffuse optical tomography (DOT) in medical imaging to recover unknown images of interest, such as cancerous tissue in a given medium, using a mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Selin Aslan , Eric de Sturler , Serkan Gugercin

The goal of this study is to introduce a unified computational framework for simulating random iteration equations (RIE), understood as iteration equations containing random variables. The novelty of this work is that full probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Wolfgang Hoegele

We propose an inexact low-rank source iteration with diffusion synthetic acceleration (SI-DSA) for solving the multidimensional steady-state radiative transfer equation (RTE) in the second-order formulation. The angular flux is represented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wei Guo , Zhichao Peng

The radiative transfer equation (RTE) is a fundamental mathematical model to describe physical phenomena involving the propagation of radiation and its interactions with the host medium. Deterministic methods can produce accurate solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Kimberly Matsuda , Yanlai Chen , Yingda Cheng , Fengyan Li

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an imaging modality which uses near-infrared light. Although iterative numerical schemes are commonly used for its inverse problem, correct solutions are not obtained unless good initial guesses are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Yu Jiang , Manabu Machida , Norikazu Todoroki

To provide rapid direction finding (DF) for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) emitter in future wireless networks, a low-complexity direction of arrival (DOA) estimation architecture for massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yiwen Chen , Feng Shu , Qijuan Jie , Xichao Zhan , Xuehui Wang , Zhongwen Sun , Shihao Yan , Wenlong Cai , Peng Zhang , Peng Chen

The Rayleigh conjecture about convergence up to the boundary of the series representing the scattered field in the exterior of an obstacle $D$ is widely used by engineers in applications. However this conjecture is false for some obstacles.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm , S. Gutman

We study the inverse problem of radiative transfer equation (RTE) using stochastic gradient descent method (SGD) in this paper. Mathematically, optical tomography amounts to recovering the optical parameters in RTE using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Ke Chen , Qin Li , Jian-Guo Liu
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