TY - JOUR T1 - Stability of P_2 Methods for Neutron Transport Equation AU - Guangwei Yuan , Zhijun Shen , Longjun Shen & Yulin Zhou JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 2 SP - 47 EP - 56 PY - 2002 DA - 2002/05 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5447.html KW - Neutron transport equations KW - Up-wind schemes KW - Stability AB - In this paper the P_2 approximation to the one-group planar neutron transport theory is discussed. The stability of the solutions for P_2 equations with general boundary conditions, including the Marshak boundary condition, is proved. Moreover, the stability of the up-wind difference scheme for the P_2 equation is demonstrated.