Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 30 / Number 2 / November 1967 / Pages 159-165
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17326
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The most general linear truncation relation for the spherical harmonic representation of the transport equation in three dimensions is shown in any order to be a partial differential equation. This equation is uniquely determined up to two independent scalar parameters in the time-dependent case and one scalar parameter in the time-independent case. In the time-dependent situation, one of the parameters may be related to the other parameter, which is pertinent to the time-independent limit, in such a way as to give correct retardation in all orders.