BARC/PUB/2012/1076

 
 

Calculation of flux due to a non-uniform line radiation source and a uniform cylindrical volume source using Mathematica

 
     
 
Author(s)

Sharma, P. S.; Datta, D.
(HPD)

Source

Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, 2012. Vol. 50 (11): pp. 832-835

ABSTRACT

A non-uniform line source has a continuous spatial variation of activity along its length. It may not be possible to divide such a source into smaller sources of uniform activity. Such situation may arise in case of a pipe carrying radioactivity in liquid form. A Mathematica based code was developed for calculating uncolIided flux due to a line source having Gaussian distribution of activity and also a line source with uniform activity placed in air or a non-attenuating medium for comparison. Uncollided flux due to a uniform cylindrical source behind a slab shield was also calculated by replacing it with an equivalent uniform line source using another Mathematica based code and it's output was compared to a point kernel method based code GUI2QAD-3D. Both the codes employ numerical integration.

 
 
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