An analytical study of particle transport in spatially random media in one dimension: Mean and variance calculations

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 403-413

  Akcasu, A Z ^a   Williams, M M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; FUELS; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; INTEGRATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DICHOTOMIC BINARY RANDOM PROCESSES; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PEBBLE-BED REACTORS; RANDOM MEDIA;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 9944245602     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE04-A2466     Document Type: Article

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