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Here, we are concerned with a new, highly precise, numerical solution to the 1D neutron transport equation based on Cases analytical singular eigenfunction expansion (SEE). While a considerable number numerical solutions currently exist,…

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The Neutron Transport Equation (NTE) describes the flux of neutrons through an inhomogeneous fissile medium. In this paper, we reconnect the NTE to the physical model of the spatial Markov branching process which describes the process of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Emma Horton , Andreas E. Kyprianou , Denis Villemonais

Nearly 45 years ago, Ken Case published his seminal paper on the singular eigenfunction solution for the Green's function of the monoenergetic neutron transport equation with isotropic scattering. Previously, the solution had been obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Barry D. ganapol

The Neutron Transport Equation (NTE) describes the flux of neutrons over time through an inhomogeneous fissile medium. In the recent articles [5, 10], a probabilistic solution of the NTE is considered in order to demonstrate a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-04 A. M. G. Cox , E. L. Horton , A. E. Kyprianou , D. Villemonais

The Neutron Transport Equation (NTE) describes the flux of neutrons through inhomogeneous fissile medium. Whilst well treated in the nuclear physics literature (cf. [9, 27]), the NTE has had a somewhat scattered treatment in mathematical…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Alex M. G. Cox , Simon C. Harris , Emma Horton , Andreas E. Kyprianou

The neutron transport equation (NTE) describes the flux of neutrons across a planar cross-section in an inhomogeneous fissile medium when the process of nuclear fission is active. Classical work on the NTE emerges from the applied…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Simon C. Harris , Emma Horton , Andreas E. Kyprianou

As more and more numerical and analytical solutions to the linear neutron transport equation become available, verification of numerical results is increasingly important. This presentation concerns the development of another benchmark for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Barry Ganapol

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Wenjie Dou

The transport of energetic particles in a spatially varying magnetic field is described by the focused transport equation. In the past two versions of this equation were investigated. The more commonly used standard form described a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

Semi-discrete optimal transport (SOT), which maps a continuous probability measure to a discrete one, is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications. Entropic regularization is often employed to solve the SOT problem, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Moaad Khamlich , Francesco Romor , Gianluigi Rozza

Carefully accounting for neutrino transport is an essential component of many astrophysical studies. Solving the full transport equation is too expensive for most realistic applications, especially those involving multiple spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Lena Murchikova , Ernazar Abdikamalov , Todd Urbatsch

The adjoint equation was introduced in the early days of neutron transport and its solution, the neutron importance, has ben used for several applications in neutronics. The work presents at first a critical review of the adjoint neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 Paolo Saracco , Sandra Dulla , Piero Ravetto

We demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono , Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose

Transport during flow of generalized Newtonian fluids (GNFs) appears often in systems that can be treated in a simplified form as either cylindrical tubes or slit openings between parallel plates. Based on the pioneering work of Taylor,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-20 Christopher A. Bowers , Cass T. Miller

Discontinuous Finite Element Methods (DFEM) have been widely used for solving $S_n$ radiation transport problems in participative and non-participative media. In the DFEM $S_n$ methodology, the transport equation is discretized into a set…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Mauricio Tano , Jean Ragusa

In this paper we study the class of optimal entropy-transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke and Savar\'e in Inventiones Mathematicae 211 in 2018. This class of unbalanced transport metrics allows for transport between measures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 David P. Bourne , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is an ideal tool to describe the multiscale phonon transport phenomena, which are critical to applications like microelectronics cooling. Numerically solving phonon BTE is extremely computationally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Ruiyang Li , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

In this paper we present a general formulation for electronic transport that combines strong correlation effects with broadening and quantum coherence, and illustrate it with a simple example ("spin blockade") that clearly demonstrates all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Supriyo Datta

We present a real-space method for first-principles nano-scale electronic transport calculations. We use the non-equilibrium Green's function method with density functional theory and implement absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs, also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Baruch Feldman , Tamar Seideman , Oded Hod , Leeor Kronik

In this paper, we present an efficient fully spectral approximation scheme for exploring the one-dimensional steady-state neutron transport equation. Our methodology integrates the spectral-(Petrov-)Galerkin scheme in the spatial dimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Haonan Zhang , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang
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