- Letter
Skin effect in neutron transport theory
Phys. Rev. E 104, L032801 – Published 20 September, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.L032801
Abstract
We identify a neutron-flux “skin effect” in the context of neutron transport theory. The skin effect, which emerges as a boundary layer at material interfaces, plays a critical role in a correct description of transport phenomena. A correct accounting of the boundary-layer structure helps bypass computational difficulties reported in the literature over the last several decades, and should lead to efficient numerical methods for neutron transport in two and three dimensions.
