Understanding the Frictional Cooling Method in Nuclear Physics

In summary, the frictional cooling method is a variational method used in the microscopic model of nuclear physics. It was mentioned in the paper "Structure of Li and Be isotopes studied with antisymmetrized molecular dynamics" published in Phys. Rev. C in 1995. The person asking the question is having trouble understanding this method.
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can you tell me what's the frictional cooling method? it is one of general varional methods, i read it in some nuclear papers,but i cannot understand it, thank you !
 
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Is "varional" a word, or did you make a typo? Please give references to the papers you're talking about. Is this a nuclear physics question, or a nuclear engineering question?
 
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bcrowell said:
Is "varional" a word, or did you make a typo? Please give references to the papers you're talking about. Is this a nuclear physics question, or a nuclear engineering question?

thank you for your reply, it is about the miscroscopic model of nuclear physics, the frictional cooling method is a variational method, i cannot understand it. the paper: Phys. Rev. C 52, 628–646 (1995) Structure of Li and Be isotopes studied with antisymmetrized molecular dynamics

thank you!
 

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