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Yaqi Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Richard C. Martineau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 176 | Number 2 | February 2014 | Pages 201-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-83
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A Galerkin weak form for the monoenergetic neutron transport equation with a continuous finite element method and discrete ordinate method is developed based on self-adjoint angular flux formulation. This weak form is modified for treating void regions. A consistent diffusion scheme is developed with projection. Correction terms of the diffusion scheme are derived to reproduce the transport scalar flux. A source iteration that decouples the solution of all directions with both linear and nonlinear diffusion accelerations is developed and demonstrated. One-dimensional Fourier analysis is conducted to demonstrate the stability of the linear and nonlinear diffusion accelerations. Numerical results of these schemes are presented.