Investigations of Nuclear Elastic Scattering Effects by Means of the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck Equation
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Vol. 86 (4) , 355-361
- https://doi.org/10.13182/nse84-a18636
Abstract
Nuclear elastic scattering (NES) has recently been recognized as an important slowing down mechanism for fast ions injected into a background plasma. The present paper proposes an improved method to include this effect into slowing down calculations. This method consists of calculating multigroup cross-section data including the transfer matrices up to a desired degree of Legendre expansion and in supplying the data to a Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) equation solved by a discrete ordinates scheme. The physical model of the BFP equation and the accuracy of the numerical method guarantee a good representation of NES.Keywords
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