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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Wm. H. Reed, K. D. Lathrop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 2 | August 1970 | Pages 237-248
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20710
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The truncation error of difference approximations to the transport equation is examined, and difference equations which are uniformly second-order accurate are derived. Resulting angular quadrature sets are shown to integrate exactly polynomials of second order in the direction cosines. The analysis is completed for the most general cases of three dimensional spherical and cylindrical geometries. Numerical results comparing this second-order scheme to the standard diamond difference equations in one-dimensional spherical geometry are presented.