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MINARET, A DETERMINISTIC NEUTRON TRANSPORT SOLVER FOR NUCLEAR CORE CALCULATIONS

Abstract

We present here MINARET a deterministic transport solver for nuclear core calculations to solve the steady state Boltzmann equation. The code follows the multi-group formalism to discretize the energy variable. It uses discrete ordinate method to deal with the angular variable and a DGFEM to solve spatially the Boltzmann equation. The mesh is unstructured in 2D and semi-unstructured in 3D (cylindrical). Curved triangles can be used to fit the exact geometry. For the curved elements, two different sets of basis functions can be used. Transport solver is accelerated with a DSA method. Diffusion and SPN calculations are made possible by skipping the transport sweep in the source iteration. The transport calculations are parallelized with respect to the angular directions. Numerical results are presented for simple geometries and for the C5G7 Benchmark, JHR reactor and the ESFR (in 2D and 3D). Straight and curved finite element results are compared.
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cea-00545919 , version 1 (13-06-2011)

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Jean-Jacques Lautard, Jean-Yves Moller. MINARET, A DETERMINISTIC NEUTRON TRANSPORT SOLVER FOR NUCLEAR CORE CALCULATIONS. 2010. ⟨cea-00545919⟩
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