An improvement of the transverse leakage treatment for the nodal SN transport calculation method in hexagonal-Z geometry

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 620-627

  Sugino, Kazuteru ^a,b   Takeda, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer calculations; Computer codes; Fast reactors; Interpolation; Nodal SN method; NSHEX code; Numerical analysis; Quadratic leakage approximation; Three dimensional hexagonal geometry; Transport calculations; Transverse leakage

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FAST REACTORS; GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AXIAL LEAKAGE; HEXAGONAL GEOMETRY; NODAL TRANSPORT CALCULATION METHOD; QUADRATIC TRANSVERSE LEAKAGE APPROXIMATION; TRANSVERSE LEAKAGE TREATMENT;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0030218739     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.1996.9731968     Document Type: Article

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