An adaptive finite element approach for neutron transport equation

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2143-2154

  Abbassi, M ^a   Zolfaghari, A ^a   Minuchehr, A ^a   Yousefi, M ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT; ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; APPROXIMATION SOLUTION; ARBITRARY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; ERROR ASSESSMENT; EVEN-PARITY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; GENERATOR TOOL; HIGH ORDER; MULTI-GROUP; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; NEUTRON TRANSPORT EQUATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; POSTERIORI ERROR; REFINEMENT STRATEGY; SPHERICAL HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRIAL FUNCTIONS; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; GEOMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; NEUTRON FLUX; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79957785376     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.03.048     Document Type: Article

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