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B. R. Wienke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 4 | December 1981 | Pages 430-432
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21394
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We describe a general method for reducing charged particle differential collision operators to a form amenable to solution in the multigroup, discrete ordinates scheme. We discuss these operators in the continuous picture and treat the Fokker-Planck and electromagnetic Lorentz terms as specific examples.