Analytical benchmark test set for criticality code verification

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-106

  Sood, Avneet ^a   Forster, R Arthur ^a   Parsons, D Kent ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic; Benchmark; Code verification; Criticality

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CODE VERIFICATIONS;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 0037215891     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-1970(02)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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