“…As a result, the time dependent thermal radiation transport problems are commonly solved numerically. Several numerical methods are in use for this purpose, namely the discrete ordinates (Ghosh and Menon, 2010), finite volume (Kim et al, 2010), Monte Carlo (Fleck and Cummings, 1971), hybrid stochastic-deterministic (Densmore, 2006), (Connolly et al, 2012), or the approximate methods like the Eddington approximation (Shettle and Weinman, 1970), heat conduction (Goldstein et al, 2010) or the diffusion approximations (Dai and Woodward, 1998), (Knoll et al, 2001), (Ober and Shadid, 2005). Benchmark results for test problems are necessary to validate and verify the numerical codes (Ensman, 1994).…”