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CONTENTS Foreword Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Cross sections and nuclear data Solid angles and spherical harmonics. Dealing with distributions. Dynamics of a scattering reaction. Definition of a cross section. Nuclear reactions with formation of a compound nucleus. Thermal agitation of nuclides and binding effects. Expansion of the differential cross sections. Calculation of the probability tables. Production of an isotopic cross-section library. Exercises.
Chapter 3 The transport equation The particle flux. Derivation of the transport equation. Source density in reactor physics. The transport correction. Multigroup discretization. The first-order streaming operator. The spherical harmonics method. The collision probability method. The discrete ordinates method. The method of characteristics. The multigroup Monte Carlo method. Exercises.
Chapter 4 Elements of lattice calculation A historical overview. Neutron slowing-down and resonance self-shielding. The neutron leakage model. The SPH equivalence technique. Isotopic depletion. Creation of the reactor database. A presentation of DRAGON. Exercises.
Chapter 5 Full-core calculations The steady-state diffusion equation. Discretization of the neutron diffusion equation. Generalized perturbation theory. Space-time kinetics. Exercises.
Answers to Problems Appendix A Tracking of 1D and 2D geometries Appendix B Special functions with Matlab Appendix C Numerical methods Bibliography Inde
