The effect of strong anisotropic scattering on the critical sphere problem in neutron transport theory using a synthetic kernel

Abstract

Abstract The effect of strong anisotropic scattering law on the variation of the critical radius in onespeed neutron transport theory is studied using a synthetic kernel. Numerical results for the critical radius are obtained and tabulated for selected illustrative cases. The results indicate that low-order Legendre approximations are sufficient to show the effect of anisotropic scattering on the variation of the critical radius.