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Nuclear News 40 Under 40 discuss the future of nuclear
Seven members of the inaugural Nuclear News 40 Under 40 came together on March 4 to discuss the current state of nuclear energy and what the future might hold for science, industry, and the public in terms of nuclear development.
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J. H. Bennett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 2 | June 1964 | Pages 209-214
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28911
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Discrete-ordinates methods for the solution of the mono-energetic transport equation in infinite slab and infinite cylindrical geometry are considered. A numerical method for each geometry is defined, and successive over-relaxation schemes for accelerating the convergence of iterative solutions to each approximate equation system are illustrated. Numerical evidence is given to show that the successive overrelaxation schemes have a considerably higher rate of convergence than the standard Gauss-Jacobi iterative schemes. For the method for cylinders, the evidence shows also that the use of the acceleration technique results in a factor of at least 2.0 improvement in the actual time required to solve a range of problems to given accuracy.