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Modeling electron transport in the presence of electric and magnetic fields.

Author(s) -

Wesley C. Fan,

Clifton Russell Drumm,

Shawn D. Pautz,

C.D. Turner

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/1096262

Subject(s) - electron , lorentz force , physics , magnetic field , electric field , boltzmann equation , lorentz transformation , computational physics , classical mechanics , quantum electrodynamics , mechanics , quantum mechanics

This report describes the theoretical background on modeling electron transport in the presence of electric and magnetic fields by incorporating the effects of the Lorentz force on electron motion into the Boltzmann transport equation. Electromagnetic fields alter the electron energy and trajectory continuously, and these effects can be characterized mathematically by differential operators in terms of electron energy and direction. Numerical solution techniques, based on the discrete-ordinates and finite-element methods, are developed and implemented in an existing radiation transport code, SCEPTRE.

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