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Reactor core analysis through the SP3-ACMFD approach. Part I: Static solution

  • Mirzaee, Morteza Khosravi (Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University) ;
  • Zolfaghari, A. (Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University) ;
  • Minuchehr, A. (Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University)
  • Received : 2018.12.24
  • Accepted : 2019.07.24
  • Published : 2020.02.25
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Abstract

The present work proposes a solution to the static Boltzmann transport equation approximated by the simplified P3 (SP3) on angular, and the analytic coarse mesh finite difference (ACMFD) for spatial variables. Multi-group SP3-ACMFD equations in 3D rectangular geometry are solved using the GMRES solution technique. As the core time dependent analysis necessitates the solution of an eigenvalue problem for an initial condition, this work is hence devoted to development and verification of the proposed static SP3-ACMFD solver. A 3D multi-group static diffusion solver is also developed as a byproduct of this work to assess the improvement achieved using the SP3 technique. Static results are then compared against transport benchmarks to assess the proximity of SP3-ACMFD solutions to their full transport peers. Results prove that the approach can be considered as an acceptable interim approximation with outputs superior to the diffusion method, close to the transport results, and with the computational costs less than the full transport approach. The work would be further generalized to time dependent solutions in Part II.

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