Analytical solutions for the neutron transport using the spectral methods英文文献资料.docVIP

ANALYTICALSOLUTIONSFORTHENEUTRONTRANSPORT USINGTHESPECTRALMETHODS ABDELOUAHABKADEM Received16May2005;Revised27March2006;Accepted4April2006 Wepresentamethodforsolvingthetwo-dimensional equationoftransfer.Themethod canbeextendedeasilytothegenerallineartransportproblem.Theusedtechniqueallows ustoreduce thetwo-dimensional equation toasystem ofone-dimensional equations. Theideaofusingthespectralmethodforsearchingforsolutionstothemultidimensional transport problemsleadsustoasolutionforallvaluesoftheindependant variables,the proposed method reduces thesolution ofthemultidimensional problems intoasetof one-dimensional onesthathavewell-established deterministic solutions.Theprocedure isbasedonthedevelopment oftheangular?uxintruncated seriesofChebyshev poly- nomials which will permit ustotransform thetwo-dimensional problem intoasetof one-dimensional problems. Copyright?2006HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved. 1.Introduction Theneutrontransport equation isalinearized versionoftheBoltzmann equation with wideapplications inphysics,geophysics,andastrophysics.Theneutrontransport equa- tion models the transport of neutral particles in a scattering, ?ssion, and absorption events with noself-interactions [11]. Itisused inradiation shielding and reactor core calculations, aswellasinradiative transfer ofstellar andplanetary atmospheres andit alsodescribesdispersionoflight,thepassageofγ-raysthroughdispersivemedia,andso forth. Theresolution ofproblems dealing withtransport phenomena isthesubjectofsev- eral works, especially in the context of transfer multidimensional problems based on analytical andnumerical approaches. Onecanrefer,forexample, toFourier transform [3,4,10,13,18,22,24]andmanyothersusingtheLaplacetransform[8,9]. Chebyshevspectralmethodsforradiativetransferproblemsarealsostudied,forexam- ple,byKimandIshimaruin[19],byKimandMoscosoin[20],byAsadzadehandKadem in[2],andbyKademin[15–17].FormoredetailedstudyonChebyshevspectralmethod HindawiPubli