Weak and strong convergence of projection methods in nonreflexive Banach spaces
The main results of this paper, in which the problem of determination of the fuel concentration distribution inducing a prescribed thermal neutron flux in the homogenized critical reactor core with given outer reflector boundary is investigated (in the two-groups diffusion approximation), are stated in the theorems 1 and 2. In theorem 1 sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a oneparametrical family of thermal neutron fluxes induced by the Goertzel’s type fuel concentration distribution....
Using the qualitative theory of differential equations the equivalence of the boundary value and the Cauchy's initial value problem is demonstrated for the slab flat flux reactor. It is found that there exists an interval of the initial (central) fuel concentrations for which the initial value problem (with two algebraic conditions) describes a critical flat flux reactor while solutions outside this interval describe undercritical systems of a nonmultiplying medium.
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