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Variational characterizations of the effective multiplication factor of a nuclear reactor core

Analysis of PDEs 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

We derive some new inf-sup and sup-inf formulae for the so-called effective multiplication factor arising in the study of reactor analysis. We treat in a same formalism the transport equation and the energy-dependent diffusion equation.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3120,
  title  = {Variational characterizations of the effective multiplication factor of a nuclear reactor core},
  author = {Bertrand Lods},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3120},
  year   = {2008}
}