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1.  NAME AND TITLE

JDL-IMPORTANCE: Adjoint Function: Physical Basis of Variational & Perturbation Theory in Transport & Diffusion Problems.

 

2.  CONTRIBUTORS

Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK,

through OECD Nuclear Energy Agency  Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

 

3.  CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

PDF format; many computers (M00005MNYCP00). NEADB ID is NEA-1811/01.

 

4.  NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

 

Dr. J.D. Lewins has now released the following legacy book for free distribution:

 

Importance: The Adjoint Function: The Physical Basis of Variational and Perturbation Theory in Transport and Diffusion Problems, North-Holland Publishing Company - Amsterdam, 582 pages, 1966
Introduction: Continuous Systems and the Variational Principle
1. The Fundamental Variational Principle
2. The Importance Function
3. Adjoint Equations 
4. Variational Methods 
5. Perturbation and Iterative Methods 
6. Non-Linear Theory

 

NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS -

Jeffery D Lewins

PhD MIT, PhD Cantab, DSc (Eng) London

Magdalene College

Cambridge

CB3 0AG

UK

 

5.  METHOD OF SOLUTION

 

6.  RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

 

7.  TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

 

8.  COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

 

9.  COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to access the files in Portable Data Format (.pdf).

 

10. REFERENCES

J.D. Lewins, Importance: The Adjoint Function: The Physical Basis of Variational and Perturbation Theory in Transport and Diffusion Problems, North-Holland Publishing Company - Amsterdam, 582 pages (1966).

 

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

The package is transmitted in a WinZIP file which contains the book cited above in PDF format.

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

July 2009

 

KEYWORDS:   ADJOINT; PERTURBATION THEORY; TRANSPORT DIFFUSION.