On a rigorous resolution of the transport equation into a system of diffusion-like equations

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-64

  Ackroyd, R T ^a   De Oliveira, C R E ^a   Zolfaghari, A ^a   Goddard, A J H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); THERMAL DIFFUSION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DIFFUSION-LIKE EQUATIONS; GELBARD METHOD; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 0033164456     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-1970(98)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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