Department of Nuclear Engineering The University of Michigan, John
Wiley & Sons, New York, London, 1978, 455 pp.
The mathematical description of the transport of microscopic particles such as neutrons, photons, electrons, and molecules through matter is commonly called transport theory. These processes are important in a wide variety of physical phenomena, and a thorough understanding of particle transport is frequently necessary in science and engineering. This book presents a general theory of particle transport processes. In particular, we have drawn together and presented in a unified manner the array of methods used to analyze transport phenomena in many fields ranging from nuclear reactor physics and astrophysics to gas and plasma dynamics to statistical mechanics.
This material has been developed over the past decade in a graduate level course on transport theory at the University of Michigan. The course was taught to students from disciplines including physics and chemistry; nuclear, mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering; and applied mathematics. The interests and demands presented by such a varied audience quickly made it apparent how similar the applications of transport theory are from field to field and how useful a unified treatment of the subject might prove to be.
Contents
Transport Equations
Exact Solutions for Simple, Modeled Theories of Particle Transport
Collision Phenomena in Particle Transport
The Derivation of Continuum Descriptions from Transport Equations
Basic Problems in Transport Theory
Nonlinear Transport Processes
Approximate Methods in Transport Theory
Numerical Methods in Transport Theory
Computer Simulation of Particle Transport
Appendices
Index
The mathematical description of the transport of microscopic particles such as neutrons, photons, electrons, and molecules through matter is commonly called transport theory. These processes are important in a wide variety of physical phenomena, and a thorough understanding of particle transport is frequently necessary in science and engineering. This book presents a general theory of particle transport processes. In particular, we have drawn together and presented in a unified manner the array of methods used to analyze transport phenomena in many fields ranging from nuclear reactor physics and astrophysics to gas and plasma dynamics to statistical mechanics.
This material has been developed over the past decade in a graduate level course on transport theory at the University of Michigan. The course was taught to students from disciplines including physics and chemistry; nuclear, mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering; and applied mathematics. The interests and demands presented by such a varied audience quickly made it apparent how similar the applications of transport theory are from field to field and how useful a unified treatment of the subject might prove to be.
Contents
Transport Equations
Exact Solutions for Simple, Modeled Theories of Particle Transport
Collision Phenomena in Particle Transport
The Derivation of Continuum Descriptions from Transport Equations
Basic Problems in Transport Theory
Nonlinear Transport Processes
Approximate Methods in Transport Theory
Numerical Methods in Transport Theory
Computer Simulation of Particle Transport
Appendices
Index