A finite volume method for the Fermi pencil-beam equation
Paper i proceeding, 2021

The paper deals with the development and analysis of a finite volume computational method for the 2-D Fermi pencil-beam equation. The Fermi pencil-beam equation de- scribes the broadening of a monoenergetic, forward-peaked, particle beam in an optically thick system where the mean scattering angle is small and the large-angle scattering is negligible. This beam type appears in many applications such as radiation cancer ther- apy. In this work, explicit and implicit finite volume schemes for the Fermi equation are developed. Stability bounds are then provided and the convergence of the approximate solution to the weak solution of the problem is shown. Results of a numerical implemen- tation support the theoretical findings and verify the robustness of the method.

finite volume method

Fermi equation

charged particles

pencil-beam

Författare

Antonios Mylonakis

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär, högenergi- och plasmafysik

Mohammad Asadzadeh

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Tillämpad matematik och statistik

Proceedings of The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2021)


9781713886310 (ISBN)

International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2021)
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Beräkningsmatematik

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DOI

10.13182/M&C21-33623

ISBN

9781713886310

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