The Scientific Contribution of the Kaniadakis Entropy to Nuclear Reactor Physics: A Brief Review.

Aquilino Senra Martinez, Willian Vieira de Abreu

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Review in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

Twenty Years of Kaniadakis Entropy: Current Trends and Future Perspectives.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Article
Relativistic Roots ofEntropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
Article

4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Aquilino Senra MartinezInstituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ), Programa de Engenharia Nuclear (PEN), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil.

Willian Vieira de AbreuInstituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ), Programa de Engenharia Nuclear (PEN), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-6685-2754

Funding

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro grant number E-26/204.444/2021, registration number 2021.00898.8

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In nuclear reactors, tracking the loss and production of neutrons is crucial for the safe operation of such devices. In this regard, the microscopic cross section with the Doppler broadening function is a way to represent the thermal agitation movement in a reactor core. This function usually considers the Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics for the velocity distribution. However, this distribution cannot be applied on every occasion, i.e., in conditions outside the thermal equilibrium. In order to overcome this potential limitation, Kaniadakis entropy has been used over the last seven years to generate generalised nuclear data. This short review article summarises what has been conducted so far and what has to be conducted yet.

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Doppler broadening functionKaniadakis entropynuclear reactor physics

Identifiers

PMID36981366

DOI10.3390/e25030478

PMCPMC10048209

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