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President Trump will arrive in the United Kingdom this week for a state visit that promises to include the usual pomp and ceremony alongside the signing of a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2023 | Pages 1-13
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Here, we are concerned with a new, highly precise, numerical solution to the one-dimensional neutron transport equation based on Case’s analytical, singular eigenfunction expansion (SEE). While a considerable number of numerical solutions currently exist, understandably, because of its complexity even in one dimension, there are only a few truly analytical solutions to the neutron transport equation. In 1960, Case introduced a consistent theory of the SEE for a variety of idealized transport problems and forever changed the landscape of analytical transport theory. Several numerical methods, including the Fn method, were based on the theory. What is presented is yet another, called the Lagrange order N method (LNM) featuring the simplicity and precision of the Fn method, but for a more convenient and natural Lagrangian polynomial basis.