[EN] Optical tomography has found many medical applications that need to know how the photons interact with the different tissues. The majority of the photon transport simulations are done using the diffusion approximation, ...
[EN] We develop and validate node homogenization methods, based on one and three-dimensional node equivalent problems, that improve the volume weighted method for the treatment of the rod cusping effect. The numerical ...
PL equations are classical approximations to the neutron transport equations, which are obtained expanding the angular neutron flux in terms of spherical harmonics. These approximations are useful to study the behavior of ...
Capilla Romá, Maria Teresa; Talavera Usano, César Félix; Ginestar Peiro, Damián; Verdú Martín, Gumersindo Jesús(International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2017-07-05)
[EN] The spherical harmonics method is applied to the angular dependence of the neutron transport equation, obtaining a finite approximation known as the PL equations, that are rewritten as a vector-valued second order ...
Capilla Romá, Maria Teresa; Talavera Usano, César Félix(Optical Society of America, 2019-01-01)
[EN] The validity of the spherical harmonics-nodal collocation approximation to the stationary Boltzmann equation has been established in multi-dimensional neutron transport problems. This is a high-order approximation ...
A PL spherical harmonics-nodal collocation method is applied to
the solution of the multidimensional neutron source transport equation.
Vacuum boundary conditions are approximated by setting Marshak's
...
[EN] A classical discretization for the angular dependence of the neutron transport equation is based on a truncated spherical harmonics expansion. The resulting system of equations are the PL equations. We review the ...
[EN] The diffusion approximation to the time-dependent Boltzmann transport equation gives accurate results for traditional nuclear reactor designs, but new reactor designs and new fuel elements require neutron transport ...