Date of Award
1980
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Bruenn, Stephen W.
Abstract
Steady state solutions to the Boltzmann transport equation were obtained for the transport of neutrinos across a finite, plane parallel slab using discrete ordinate methods. Semi-analytic solutions were obtained in the case of isoenergetic, isotropic scattering for one energy group and in the restricted case of isoenergetic and nonisoenergetic (Compton), isotropic scattering between two energy groups where the isoenergetic and the Compton scattering rates are the same for the two groups. For these two cases solutions were obtained for total optical thicknesses of 0.2, 2, and 20. When the Compton scattering rates of the two energy groups are allowed to be different, the transport equation becomes nonlinear due to the exclusion principle. For this case a numerical scheme was developed which yielded solutions for slabs having optical thicknesses up to unity.
Extent
93 p.
Recommended Citation
BALLESTER, JORGE LUIS, "STEADY STATE TRANSPORT WITH ISOENERGETIC AND NEUTRINO-ELECTRON SCATTERING" (1980). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 57.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/57
Identifier
FADT14014
Comments
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.