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Anisotropic Neutron Transport Without Legendre Expansions

J. P. Odom, J. K. Shultis

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 59 / Number 3 / March 1976 / Pages 278-281

Technical Note / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-5

A technique to obtain the energy group-to-group transfer cross sections for neutron elastic scattering is presented. This method, which avoids the traditional Legendre polynomial expansions, can be used directly in a discrete ordinates formulation of the transport equation to give accurate numerical results for those situations in which the group-to-group transfer is highly anisotropic.