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The Spartan Code Package

Michael L. Hall

September 10, 2002

Abstract:

The Spartan Code Package solves the Simplified Spherical Harmonics (SP_N) Photon Transport equations on an unstructured Multi-D mesh.

Spartan uses the Augustus Code Package as a diffusion kernel.



Presentations & Articles:

* Diffusion, P1, and Other Approximate Forms of Radiation Transport
A paper by Gordon L. Olson, Larry H. Auer and Michael L. Hall, in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 64:6 (2000) pp. 619-634, is available in PDF format as both the submitted version and the JQSRT version (LA-UR-99-471).

* Analysis of Z Pinch Shock Wave Experiments
A Sandia report by Timothy G. Trucano, Kent G. Budge, Jeffery Lawrence, James Asay, Clint Hall, Kathleen Holland, Carl Konrad, Wayne Trott, Gordon Chandler, and Kevin Fleming is available in PDF format (SAND99-1255).

* Spartan Test Problem Results
A presentation by Michael L. Hall that was made on September 29th, 1998 to the Department of Energy is available in HTML, PDF and PostScript formats (LA-UR-98-3890). It was presented with a video.

* Aspects of Analysis of Z Machine Shock Wave Physics Experiments
A presentation by Timothy G. Trucano that was made on August 6, 1998 to the DOE Interlaboratory MHD Workshop at Los Alamos National Laboratory is available in PDF format.

* Spartan Parallelization and Augustus Time Dependent Results
A few slides prepared by Michael L. Hall as part of a larger presentation to Gil Weigand on June 1st, 1998 are available in HTML, PDF and PostScript formats (LA-UR-98-3750).

* Spartan/Augustus Overview: Simplified Spherical Harmonics and Diffusion for Unstructured Hexahedral Lagrangian Meshes
A presentation by Michael L. Hall that was made to the Shavano working group on April 22nd, 1998 is available in HTML, PDF and PostScript formats (LA-UR-98-3766).

* ``Top Hat'' problem (or ``Pipe Flow'' problem) Results From Spartan
Some results and graphs by Michael L. Hall from running Spartan on the ``Top Hat'' problem are available: Data Listing, Results Summary (PostScript) and compressed tarfile of whole directory.


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