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In this review I will first describe some of the salient characteristics of high-energy-density physics (HEDP), and in particular the challenges of simulating HEDP radiation transport. The balance of the review is taken up with discussions of five case studies in HEDP radiation transport that illustrate some of the problems that are faced. The five case studies are: (1) the Marshak wave; (2) what I call the star-in-space problem; (3) the radiative shock wave; (4) the so-called crooked-pipe problem; and (5) a case that illustrates how severe the difficulty may be of choosing a sufficient set of discrete angles for 3-D radiation transport.
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Castor, J.I. (2008). Verification (Mostly) for High Energy Density Radiation Transport: Five Case Studies. In: Graziani, F. (eds) Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77362-7_1
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