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Vibrational enhancement of evolutionary monochromatic neutron transport

  • Nassar H.S. Haidar (Euclidean Press LLC)
  • Received : 2022.08.29
  • Accepted : 2024.02.07
  • Published : 2024.07.25
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Abstract

The monochromatic hyperbolic neutron density wave is conceived as a Rayleigh-like wave with mixed transverse and longitudinal components. It is proved for the first time that the absolute ratio of the longitudinal to transverse interfering components, varies, with increasing the frequency of this wave, from zero to 1. Such a limited variation is to be coined as vibrational enhancement of evolutionary one-speed neutron transport.

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The author is grateful to the anonymous referees for a number of valuable suggestions and comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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