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Ridley, Gavin

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Resonance Scattering Treatment with the Windowed Multipole Formalism

A new method for directly sampling the resonance upscattering effect is presented. Alternatives have relied on inefficient rejection sampling techniques or large tabular storage of relative velocities. None of these approaches, which require pointwise energy data, are particularly well suited to the windowed multipole cross-section representation. The new method, called multipole analytic resonance scattering, overcomes these limitations by inverse transform sampling from the target relative velocity distribution where the cross section is expressed in the multipole formalism. The closed-form relative speed distribution contains a novel special function we deem the incomplete Faddeeva function, and we present the first results on its efficient numerical evaluation.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗

Transient MOC with frequency transform and DSA on unstructured mesh

We present an implementation of the transient method of characteristics (MOC) with isotropic time derivatives, accelerated by diffusion synthetic acceleration (DSA). The fully implicit frequency transform method is used to solve the transient problem with analytic precursor integration. The code works on meshes composed of almost any of the commonly used non-curvilinear finite element types, and can handle the deformation of geometry in time-dependent transport calculations. We present results of a continuous Fourier analysis for the transient multigroup DSA problem, and representative benchmarking results are presented for the C5G7-TD benchmark in 2D showing reasonable performance and agreement compared to other codes. (authors)

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS↗