Variation of the critical slab thickness with the degree of strongly anisotropic scattering in one-speed neutron transport theory


Yildiz C.

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, cilt.25, sa.8, ss.529-540, 1998 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 8
  • Basım Tarihi: 1998
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/s0306-4549(97)00114-x
  • Dergi Adı: ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.529-540
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The critical slab problem is studied in one-speed neutron transport theory using a linearly anisotropic kernel which combines forward and backward scattering. It is shown that, the recently observed non-monotonic variation of the thickness also exists in this strongly anisotropic case. In addition, the influence of the linear anisotropy on the critical thickness is analysed in detail. Numerical analysis for the critical thickness are performed using the spherical harmonics method and results are tabulated for selected illustrative cases as a function of different degrees of anisotropic scattering.