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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 54 | Number 3 | July 1974 | Pages 353-356
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23425
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The Milne problem for isotropic scattering for one speed and for the conservative case, (c = 1), is solved by using the full-range completeness property of Case’s eigenfunctions. Explicit numerical results are derived by iterating on a very rapidly convergent Fredholm integral equation, and the results thus obtained are in excellent agreement with those obtained previously by the use of Case’s half-range completeness theorem. Since for multigroup formulations the full-range completeness is more easily proved (as compared to the half-range completeness), it is felt that the present approach may prove useful.