Scattering Kernel

The Maxwellian velocity d istribution function (2.152) represents a steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation describing the microscopic evolution of a 

8) When considering equOibrium gas properties, one can ignore collisions between gas atoms, because they do not change the velocity distribution function. 

A simple model for gas-surface scattering, proposed by Maxwell, can be represented by the kernel 

In a more sophisticated model, the reflection from the surface can be mediated by substrate phonons. This results in a broadening of fhe angular distribution of the reflected atoms. Besides this, one has to take into accormt the dependence of the sticking probability on the incident energy of the atoms. We thus arrive at the scattering kernel in the form  

The scattering kernel is a fundamental quantity summarizing the basic information on the gas-surface interaction. It is indirectly contained in the velocity distribution function of the atomic flux departing from the surface (Eq. (2.158)). Therefore, the atoms remember how they have been scattered by the surface as long as interatomic collisions in the gas do not destroy this information. This destruction happens at distances of the order of the mean free path from the surface. The corresponding gas slab nearby the surface is called the Knudsen layer. 

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The perturbation in the fission kernel is considerably more complicated because this kernel takes into account multiple-neutron collisions (excluding fissions), whereas represents first-flight neutrons only. Consequently, 3 also depends on the perturbations in the scattering kernel and fission cross section. From Eq. (65) we have... 

Sharipov F (2003) Application of the Cercignani-Lampis scattering kernel to calculations of rarefied gas flows. II. Slip and jump coefficients. Eur J Mech B/Fluid 22 133-143... 

Gp for the CL scattering kernel obtained in [5] are given in Table 2. In all regimes the influence of the energy accommodation coefficient on the flow rate is weak, while the momentum accommodation coefficient ott affects significantly the flow rate in the transition (8 = 1) and near the free molecular (5 = 0.01) regimes. 

The assumption in Brownian motion is always m. mg. It is possible to determine the range of validity of the Brownian-particle assumption (and the range of validity of the Fokker-Planck equation) for the model of particle and gas as rigid spheres — the Rayleigh gas. For homogeneous host gas a Fokker-Planck equation can be written and solved exactly for the same problem, a transport or master equation can be studied with an exact scattering kernel [2.16]. 

Fig.2.1. Eigenvalues of the energy scattering kernel for a hard-sphere Brownian test particle as a function of mass ratio, y = [2.16]...

In this simple assumption, a fraction a of the molecules leave the surface as a Maxwellian stream equilibrated with the surface, and a fraction (1 - a) are specularly reflected. In terms of the scattering kernel of (2.49), Maxwell s boundary condition is ... 

Here a22 is the tangential momentum accommodation coefficient, a2g and are "second-order" coefficients, is the Chapman-Enskog first-order approximation to the viscosity coefficient. Equation (2.68) is, of course, valid for general gas-surface scattering kernels (2.49). Equation (2.68) reduces approximately to... 

It can be seen from Table I that discrepancies of about 2.5% exist between the calculation and the experiments. Possible sourcSs of the discrepancies are the choice of thermal-scattering kernel, slowing-down model and poor high-energy non-elastic cross sections. Calculations of these effects m being performed It is hoped that these calculations plus experimental determination of energy-flux distributions and position dependent reactivity coefficients will serve to Isolate the effects responsible for the miscalculation. 

PARKS D. E., "The Calculation of Thermal Neutron Scattering Kernels in Graphite, General A/omt c, Report, GA-2438, October, 1961. 

BELL, J., SUMMIT an IBM 7090 program for the computation of crystalline Scattering Kernels, General Atomic Report GA-2492, (Feb. 1962). 

W. W. CLENDENIN et al., MAGMA-A Philco-2000 Program for the Calculation of Scattering Kernels, Neutron Spectra and Few-Group Parameters for Thermal Neutrmis," WAPD-TM-373, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory (1964). 

R. L. CURTIS and R. A. GRIMESEY, INCITE -A FORTRAN-IV Program to Generate Thermal Neutron Spectra and Multigroup Constants Using Arbitrary Scattering Kernels, IN-1062, Uaho Nuclear Corporation (November 1967). 

An AMPX master cross-section, library is the most comprehensive processed library in the AMPX system. The library contains multigroup cross sections, transfer matrices, resonance parameters, weighting functions, etc., has provisions for neutron, photon-production, and photon-interaction data, has provisions for temperature dependence on thermal scattering kernels, etc. 

The continuous energy cross sections are obtained from the Evaluated Nuclear Data Files (ENDF/B), which include smooth cross sections up to at least 20 MeV, secondary scattered neutron energy and directional distributions, thermal scattering kernel properties, and resonance parameters. 

Gas-surface scattering kernel R y, v) relates the velocity distribution function of reflected particles/+(v) to that of incident ones/ (v)... 

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