Simplified P3 approximation

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-21

  Brantley, Patrick S ^a   Larsen, Edward W ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

MULTIGROUP NEUTRON TRANSPORT EQUATION;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0033895343     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE134-01     Document Type: Article

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