Discrete ordinates solutions for highly forward peaked scattering

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 249-274

  Sanchez, Richard ^a   McCormick, Norman J ^b  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FERMI LEVEL; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCATTERING;

COLLIMATED PARTICLE BEAMS; HIGHLY FORWARD PEAK SCATTERING (HFPS); ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTON TRANSPORT;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 3242793407     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE04-A2432     Document Type: Review

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