Chemical and Biological Engineering ETDs

Publication Date

4-27-1979

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation was to develop an accurate and efficient alternative to presently available methods of calculating the steady state penetration of electrons deep into homogeneous materials. A thorough solution must include scalar fluxes, net currents, angular distributions, and differential energy spectra. This research has successfully developed the method of condensed collisions, which provides an alternative to methods now in use for the solution of the electron transport problem. The condensed collsion method is general, but has been applied specifically to deep penetration electron transport to demonstrate its utility. The present aplication was for electrons having incident energies of 110-KeV and 1-MeV on a one-dimensional slab. The condensed collision approach, which has not been previously applied to solutions of the Boltzman transport equation, has been demonstrated to be particularly applicable to the deep penetration of electrons into homogeneous media.

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Chemical Engineering

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Chemical and Biological Engineering

First Committee Member (Chair)

Glenn Alan Whan

Second Committee Member

William Jackson Byatt

Third Committee Member

E. James Davis

Fourth Committee Member

Ronald Allen Knief

Fifth Committee Member

Lawrence D. Posey

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