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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 1 | May 1996 | Pages 57-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24212
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A locally exact numerical scheme (LENS) based on the concept of locally exact numerical differencing is presented. The essence of the LENS scheme consists in determining the coefficients of the difference scheme so that the resulting equation interpolating numerical fluxes at the control volume surface satisfies the analytical solution of transport equations with absorption and source terms. The spatial distribution of the coefficients of transport equations is taken into consideration based on a four-region model among three adjacent control volumes, in which continuous conditions for solutions are imposed on the boundary between two adjacent regions. An analysis of nonoscillation properties of the present LENS scheme was performed using the characteristic polynomial analysis method. It was found that the LENS scheme possesses the potential for nonoscillation properties for stationary convection-diffusion equations with absorption. The LENS scheme is examined through numerical experiments and shows stable and accurate solutions for transport equations with absorption and source terms.