RADIATIVE TRANSPORT AND THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS, I: THE INVARIANT VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE AND NORMAL INITIAL AND BOUNDARY DATA,

Abstract

The problem of three-dimensional radiative transport is imbedded in a variational principle (preferably invariant under analytic coordinate transformations). The requisite invariant variational principle is obtained. The symmetry properties of such problems are examined for normal scattering kernels.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624777

Entities

People

  • Dominic G. B. Edelen

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Calculus
  • Calculus Of Variations
  • Mathematics
  • Scattering
  • Symmetry
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Ships
  • Variational Principles

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis