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As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Marvin L. Adams, William R. Martin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 2 | June 1992 | Pages 145-167
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23930
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We present a discretization of the diffusion equation that can be used to accelerate transport iterations when the transport equation is spatially differenced by a discontinuous finite element (DFE) method. That is, we present a prescription for diffusion synthetic acceleration of DFE transport iterations. (The well-known linear discontinuous and bilinear discontinuous schemes are examples of DFE transport differencings.) We demonstrate that our diffusion discretization can be obtained in any coordinate system on any grid. We show that our diffusion discretization is not strictly consistent with the transport discretization in the usual sense. Nevertheless, we find that it yields a scheme with unconditional stability and rapid convergence. Further, we find that as the optical thickness of spatial cells becomes large, the spectral radius of the iteration scheme approaches zero (i.e., instant convergence). We give analysis results for one- and two-dimensional Cartesian geometries and numerical results for one-dimensional Cartesian and spherical geometries.