Oxford University Press, London, 1958, 469 pp.
Contents
General analysis
The physical properties of neutrons.
The mathematical formulation of the laws of neutron migration.
Stationary and time-dependent problems. The adjoint equation.
The constant cross-section approximation.
One-group theory and its range of application.
Exact solutions 'for an infinite medium with isotropic scattering.
Exact solutions for an infinite half-space.
The case of two adjacent half-space.
The diffusion approximation.
The serber-wilson method.
The spherical harmonics method for plane geometries.
The spherical harmonics method for spherical geometries.
The spherical harmonics method for other geometries.
The method of discrete ordinates.
The perturbation method.
The variational method.
The iteration and monte carlo methods.
Anisotropic scattering.
Energy-dependent problems with spectrum regeneration.
A general survey of energy-dependent problems.
Multi-group theory.
The method of polynomial approximations.
Feynman's method
Slowing-down problems.
A general survey of slowing-down problems. The spatial moments of the neutron distribution as functions of energy.
Age theory.
Slowed-down neutrons at large distances from the source. The case of
Slowed-down neutrons at large distancies from the source. The case of variable cross-sections.
Holte's method.
Appendix
Contents
General analysis
The physical properties of neutrons.
The mathematical formulation of the laws of neutron migration.
Stationary and time-dependent problems. The adjoint equation.
The constant cross-section approximation.
One-group theory and its range of application.
Exact solutions 'for an infinite medium with isotropic scattering.
Exact solutions for an infinite half-space.
The case of two adjacent half-space.
The diffusion approximation.
The serber-wilson method.
The spherical harmonics method for plane geometries.
The spherical harmonics method for spherical geometries.
The spherical harmonics method for other geometries.
The method of discrete ordinates.
The perturbation method.
The variational method.
The iteration and monte carlo methods.
Anisotropic scattering.
Energy-dependent problems with spectrum regeneration.
A general survey of energy-dependent problems.
Multi-group theory.
The method of polynomial approximations.
Feynman's method
Slowing-down problems.
A general survey of slowing-down problems. The spatial moments of the neutron distribution as functions of energy.
Age theory.
Slowed-down neutrons at large distances from the source. The case of
Slowed-down neutrons at large distancies from the source. The case of variable cross-sections.
Holte's method.
Appendix