Acceleration of a 2-dimensional, 2-energy group neutron noise solver based on a discrete ordinates method in the frequency domain
Paper in proceeding, 2020

The acceleration of the convergence rate is studied for a neutron transport solver to simulate 2-D, 2-energy-group neutron noise problems in the frequency domain. The Coarse Mesh Finite Difference (CMFD) method is compared to the Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration (DSA) method. Numerical tests are performed using heterogeneous system configurations with different boundary conditions. The CMFD scheme leads to a better convergence rate. The results also show that CMFD can accelerate neutron noise problems in a wide range of perturbation frequencies with almost equal efficiency. An unstable convergence behavior is nevertheless observed in problems with purely reflective boundary conditions. Stabilization techniques such as performing multiple transport sweeps, underrelaxing the flux update, and using the lpCMFD method are investigated and improvements can be obtained.

Reactor neutron noise

discrete ordinates

CMFD

Author

Huaiqian Yi

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Paolo Vinai

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Christophe Demaziere

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future, PHYSOR 2020

Vol. 2020-March 2922-2929 1194
9781713827245 (ISBN)

International conference on Physics of Reactors - PHYSOR 2020
Cambridge, United Kingdom,

Core monitoring techniques and experimental validation and demonstration (CORTEX)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/754316), 2017-09-01 -- 2021-08-31.

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Other Engineering and Technologies

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Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1051/epjconf/202124721005

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