Using the Schwinger Variational Functional for the Solution of Inverse Transport Problems

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-70

  Favorite, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INVERSE PROBLEMS; ISOTOPES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RADIATION TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; SCHWINGER VARIATIONAL FUNCTIONALS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 0742322246     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE02-96     Document Type: Article

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