Adjoint-weighted tallies for k-eigenvalue calculations with continuous-energy Monte Carlo

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-241

  Kiedrowski, Brian C ^a   Brown, Forrest B ^a   Wilson, Paul P H ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DISCRETE ORDINATES; EIGENVALUE CALCULATIONS; FIRST ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; POINT REACTOR KINETICS; REACTIVITY CHANGES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79960760223     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE10-22     Document Type: Article

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