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The past few years have seen a concerted effort from many U.S. states to encourage nuclear development. The momentum behind nuclear-friendly policies has grown considerably, with many states repealing moratoriums, courting nuclear developers and suppliers, and in some cases creating advisory groups and road maps to push deployment of new nuclear reactors.
Edward W. Larsen, Tomás M. Paganin, Richard Vasques
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 5 | May 2025 | Pages 793-802
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2392942
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The quasidiffusion (QD) method is an established and efficient iterative technique for solving particle transport problems. Each QD iteration consists of a high-order SN sweep, followed by a low-order QD calculation. QD has two defining characteristics: (1) its iterations converge rapidly for any spatial grid and (2) the converged scalar fluxes from the high-order SN sweep and the low-order QD calculation differ, by spatial truncation errors, from each other and from the scalar flux solution of the SN equations. In this paper, we show that by including a transport consistency factor in the low-order equation, the converged high-order and low-order scalar fluxes become equal to each other and to the converged SN scalar flux. However, the inclusion of the transport consistency factor has a negative impact on the convergence rate. We present numerical results that demonstrate the effect of the transport consistency factor on stability.