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Kong B, Zhu K, Zhang H, Hao C, Guo J, Li F. Convergence study of DGFEM SN based 2D/1D coupling method for solving neutron transport k-eigenvalue problems with Fourier analysis. ANN NUCL ENERGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2022.109327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Kong B, Zhu K, Zhang H, Hao C, Guo J, Li F. A Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method based axial SN for the 2D/1D transport method. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2022.104391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Zhou X, Liu Z, Cao L, Wu H. Convergence analysis for the CMFD accelerated 2D/1D neutron transport calculation method based on Fourier analysis. ANN NUCL ENERGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2022.108982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shen Q, Choi S, Kochunas B. A Robust, Relaxation-Free Multiphysics Iteration Scheme for CMFD-Accelerated Neutron Transport k-Eigenvalue Calculations—II: Numerical Results. NUCL SCI ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2021.1906586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Qicang Shen
- University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104
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- University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104
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- University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104
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Shen Q, Kochunas B. A Robust, Relaxation–Free Multiphysics Iteration Scheme for CMFD–Accelerated Neutron Transport k–Eigenvalue Calculations–I: Theory. NUCL SCI ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2021.1906585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Qicang Shen
- University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104
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- University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104
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A linear prolongation CMFD acceleration for two-dimensional discrete ordinate k-eigenvalue neutron transport calculation with pin-resolved mesh using discontinuous Galerkin finite element method. ANN NUCL ENERGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.108103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Numerical stability analysis of lp-CMFD acceleration for the discrete ordinates neutron transport calculation discretized with discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method. ANN NUCL ENERGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.108036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The coarse-mesh finite difference (CMFD) scheme is a very effective nonlinear diffusion acceleration method for neutron transport calculations. CMFD can become unstable and fail to converge when the computational cell optical thickness is relatively large in k-eigenvalue problems or diffusive fixed-source problems. Some variants and fixups have been developed to enhance the stability of CMFD, including the partial current-based CMFD (pCMFD), optimally diffusive CMFD (odCMFD), and linear prolongation-based CMFD (lpCMFD). Linearized Fourier analysis has proven to be a very reliable and accurate tool to investigate the convergence rate and stability of such coupled high-order transport/low-order diffusion iterative schemes. It is shown in this paper that the use of different transport solvers in Fourier analysis may have some potential implications on the development of stabilizing techniques, which is exemplified by the odCMFD scheme. A modification to the artificial diffusion coefficients of odCMFD is proposed to improve its stability. In addition, two explicit expressions are presented to calculate local optimal successive overrelaxation (SOR) factors for lpCMFD to further enhance its acceleration performance for fixed-source problems and k-eigenvalue problems, respectively.
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Li J, Xu Y, Wang D, Shen Q, Kochunas B, Downar T. DEMONSTRATION OF A LINEAR PROLONGATION CMFD METHOD ON MOC. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202124703006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Coarse Mesh Finite Difference (CMFD) method is a very effective method to accelerate the iterations for neutron transport calculation. But it can degrade and even fail when the optical thickness of the mesh becomes large. Therefore several methods, including partial current-based CMFD (pCMFD) and optimally diffusive CMFD (odCMFD), have been proposed to stabilize the conventional CMFD method. Recently, a category of “higherorder” prolongation CMFD (hpCMFD) methods was proposed to use both the local and neighboring coarse mesh fluxes to update the fine cell flux, which can solve the fine cell scalar flux discontinuity problem between the fine cells at the bounary of the coarse mesh. One of the hpCMFD methods, refered as lpCMFD, was proposed to use a linear prolongation to update the fine cell scalar fluxes.
Method of Characteristics (MOC) is a very popular method to solve neutron transport equations. In this paper, lpCMFD is applied on the MOC code MPACT for a variety of fine meshes. A track-based centroids calculation method is introduced to find the centroids coordinates for random shapes of fine cells. And the numerical results of a 2D C5G7 problem are provided to demonstrate the stability and efficiency of lpCMFD method on MOC. It shows that lpCMFD can stabilize the CMFD iterations in MOC method effectively and lpCMFD method performs better than odCMFD on reducing the outer MOC iterations.
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Wang D. Enhancing lpCMFD Acceleration with Successive Overrelaxation for Neutron Transport Source Iteration. NUCL SCI ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2020.1785190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Dean Wang
- The Ohio State University, 201 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Chan Y, Xiao S. A Linear Prolongating Coarse Mesh Finite Difference Acceleration of Discrete Ordinate Neutron Transport Calculation Based on Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method. NUCL SCI ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2020.1752045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Yimeng Chan
- National University of Singapore, Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative, 1 CREATE Way, CREATE Tower #04-01, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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- National University of Singapore, Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative, 1 CREATE Way, CREATE Tower #04-01, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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