Development and Verification of an Efficient Spatial Neutron Kinetics Method for Reactivity-Initiated Event Analyses

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 492-502

  Ikeda, Hideaki ^a   Takeda, Toshikazu ^b  

^a Toden Software Inc   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auto time step control; Computer codes; EPISODE code; Improved quasi static method; Neutron flux distributions; Nodal expansion method; Nonlinear iteration scheme; Numerical efficiency; Predictor corrector method; Reactivity initiated event; Spatial neutron kinetics

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER CODES; IMPROVED QUASI STATIC METHOD; NODAL EXPANSION METHOD; SPATIAL NEUTRON KINETICS METHOD;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0035387816     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2001.9715059     Document Type: Article

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