Advanced Reactor Physics

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Department of Nuclear Reactors

Synopsis:

The course is focused to linear transport theory. Its main part is devoted to exact solution of important problems for transport equation. As well the solutions to various approximations of the problems concerning transition of neutral particles through a material medium are included in the course. Several lectures are devoted to numeric solutions, especially to: discrete-ordinate method, variation methods, the first collision method and Monte Carlo method. One of lectures deals with configuration in blanket of ADS systems and with computations in the field of transmutation reactors.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1.Evolution of transport theory.

2.Introduction to linear transport equations.

3.Exact transport equation solutions.

4.Diffusion approximation.

5.Serber-Wilson method.

6.Method of spherical harmonic functions.

7.Discrete-coordinate method.

8.Disturbance method.

9.Variational method.

10.Monte-Carlo method.

11.First collision method.

12.Methods of polynomial approximations.

13.Neutrons slow-down.

14.Transport methods application to the atypical ordered blankets of ADS systems.

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Study materials:

1.Weinberg A. M., Wigner E.P.: The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors, The University of Chicago Press, 1958

2.Sramm'ler R.J.J., Abbate M.J.: Methods of Steady-State Reactor Physics in Nuclear Design, Academic Press, London, New York, 1983

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