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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.2009.41.4.381

SOME OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS IN NEUTRON TRANSPORT COMPUTATION  

Cho, Nam-Zin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Chang, Jong-Hwa (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.41, no.4, 2009 , pp. 381-390 More about this Journal
Abstract
This article provides selects of outstanding problems in computational neutron transport, with some suggested approaches thereto, as follows: i) ray effect in discrete ordinates method, ii) diffusion synthetic acceleration in strongly heterogeneous problems, iii) method of characteristics extension to three-dimensional geometry, iv) fission source and $k_{eff}$ convergence in Monte Carlo, v) depletion in Monte Carlo, vi) nuclear data evaluation, and vii) uncertainty estimation, including covariance data.
Keywords
Transport Computation; Deterministic Method; Monte Carlo Method; Ray Effect; Acceleration; Depletion; Nuclear Data Evaluation; Nuclear Interaction Model; Covariance;
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