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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 261-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26824
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For one-speed neutrons, we have investigated the effect of anisotropy in the scattering kernel on their angular distribution at various space points inside slabs of different thicknesses. This has been done by solving the one-speed space-angle-dependent neutron transport equation for a pulsed source, by numerically iterating over the space and angle variables. We find that the fundamental decay constant decreases with increasing anisotropy, the effect being more in thicker slabs. The effect of scattering anisotropy on the angular flux inside slabs, as well as on leakage flux, has been reported. For a specific scattering kernel, the variation of angular flux with thickness of the slab is also discussed. Some of these results have been compared with those based on P1 and P3 approximations.