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| Title: | Symbolic math for computation of radiation shielding |
| Authors: | Suman, Vitisha
Datta, D
Sarkar, P K
Kushwaha, H S |
| Keywords: | Radiation transport
Symbolic math
Shielding |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Radiation transport
calculations for shielding studies in the field of accelerator technology often
involve intensive numerical computations. Traditionally, radiation transport
equation is solved using finite difference scheme or advanced finite element
method with respect to specific initial and boundary conditions suitable for
the geometry of the problem. All these computations need CPU intensive computer
codes for accurate calculation of scalar and angular fluxes. Computation using
symbols of the analytical expression representing the transport equation as
objects is an enhanced numerical technique in which the computation is
completely algorithm and data oriented. Algorithm on the basis of symbolic math
architecture is developed using Symbolic math toolbox of MATLAB software.
Present paper describes the symbolic math algorithm and its application as a
case study in which shielding calculation of rectangular slab geometry is
studied for a line source of specific activity. Study of application of
symbolic math in this domain evolves a new paradigm compared to the existing
computer code such as DORT. |
| Page(s): | 787-789 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1041 (Online); 0019-5596 (Print) |
| Source: | IJPAP Vol.48(11) [November 2010]
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