Nuclear Engineering ETDs

Publication Date

Fall 11-15-2016

Abstract

Short mean free paths are characteristic of charged particles. High energy charged particles often have highly forward peaked scattering cross sections. Transport problems involving such charged particles are also highly optically thick. When problems simultaneously have forward peaked scattering and high optical thickness, their solution, using standard iterative methods, becomes very inefficient. In this dissertation, we explore Fokker-Planck-based acceleration for solving such problems.

Keywords

Charged particle transport, forward-peaked scattering, synthetic acceleration, Fokker- Planck, Asymptotics

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Nuclear Engineering

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Nuclear Engineering

First Committee Member (Chair)

Dr. Anil Prinja

Second Committee Member

Dr. James Warsa

Third Committee Member

Dr. Gary Cooper

Fourth Committee Member

Dr. Mohammed Motamed

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