Legacy books on slowing down, thermalization, particle transport theory, random processes in reactors
Ongoing

by Professor M.M.R. Williams

 

Professor M.M.R Williams, the copyright owner, has released three of his legacy books for free distribution by the NEA Data Bank.

The Slowing Down and Thermalization of Neutrons

M. M. R. Williams, North-Holland Publishing Company Amsterdam, 1966, 582 pages.

 

Part I: The Thermal Energy Region

1. Introduction and Historical Review
2. The Scattering Kernel
3. Neutron Thermalization in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium
4. Neutron Thermalization in Finite Media
5. The Spatial Dependence of the Energy Spectrum
6. Reactor Cell Calculations
7. Synthetic Scattering Kernels

Part II: The Slowing Down Region

8. Scattering Kernels in the Slowing Down Region
9. Neutron Slowing Down in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium
10.Neutron Slowing Down and Diffusion

 

Mathematical Methods in Particle Transport Theory

M. M. R. Williams, Butterworths London, 1971, 430 pages.

 

1. The General Problem of Particle Transport
2. The Boltzmann Equation for Gas Atoms and Neutrons
3. Boundary Conditions
4. Scattering Kernels
5. Some Basic Problems in Neutron Transport and Rarefied Gas Dynamics
6. The Integral Form of the Transport Equation in Plane, Spherical and Cylindrical Geometries
7. Exact Solutions of Model Problems
8. Eigenvalue Problems in Transport Theory
9. Collision Probability Methods
10. Variational Methods
11. Polynomial Approximations

 

Random Processes in Nuclear Reactors

M. M. R. Williams, Pergamon Press Oxford New York Toronto Sydney, 1974, 243 pages.

 

1. Historical Survey and General Discussion
2. Introductory Mathematical Treatment
3. Applications of the General Theory
4. Practical Applications of the Probability Distribution
5. The Langevin Technique
6. Point Model Power Reactor Noise
7. The Spatial Variation of Reactor Noise
8. Random Phenomena in Heterogeneous Reactor Systems
9. Associated Fluctuation Problems
Appendix: Noise Equivalent Sources

 

Books are stored in PDF format with bookmarks organised by chapters and sections to facilitate electronic "navigation" of the documents. Corrigenda for the 3 books are also provided. Each page with a correction includes a hyperlink to the corresponding correction and a pointer to return to the original page from the corrigenda.