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Mesoscopic Methods In Engineering And Science, Chuguang Zheng, Jiding Lu, Zhaoli Guo, Li-Shi Luo, Manfred Krafczyk
Mesoscopic Methods In Engineering And Science, Chuguang Zheng, Jiding Lu, Zhaoli Guo, Li-Shi Luo, Manfred Krafczyk
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Matter, conceptually classified into fluids and solids, can be completely described by the microscopic physics of its constituent atoms or molecules. However, for most engineering applications a macroscopic or continuum description has usually been sufficient, because of the large disparity between the spatial and temporal scales relevant to these applications and the scales of the underlying molecular dynamics. In this case, the microscopic physics merely determines material properties such as the viscosity of a fluid or the elastic constants of a solid. These material properties cannot be derived within the macroscopic framework, but the qualitative nature of the macroscopic dynamics …
A Forward-Backward Fluence Model For The Low-Energy Neutron Boltzmann Equation, Gary Alan Feldman
A Forward-Backward Fluence Model For The Low-Energy Neutron Boltzmann Equation, Gary Alan Feldman
Mathematics & Statistics Theses & Dissertations
In this research work, the neutron Boltzmann equation was separated into two coupled integro-differential equations describing forward and backward neutron fluence in selected materials. Linear B-splines were used to change the integro-differential equations into a coupled system of ordinary differential equations (O.D.E.'s). Difference approximations were then used to recast the O.D.E.'s into a coupled system of linear equations that were solved for forward and backward neutron fluences. Adding forward and backward fluences gave the total fluence at selected energies and depths in the material. Neutron fluences were computed in single material shields and in a shield followed by a target …