Samuel Pasmann, Ilham Variansyah, C. T. Kelley, Ryan G. McClarren
{"title":"Mitigating Spatial Error in the Iterative Quasi–Monte Carlo (iQMC) Method for Neutron Transport Simulations with Linear Discontinuous Source Tilting and Effective Scattering and Fission Rate Tallies","authors":"Samuel Pasmann, Ilham Variansyah, C. T. Kelley, Ryan G. McClarren","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2332007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332007","url":null,"abstract":"The iterative Quasi–Monte Carlo (iQMC) method is a recently proposed method for neutron transport simulations. iQMC can be viewed as a hybrid between deterministic iterative techniques, Monte Carlo...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Investigation of Air-Steam Condensation in a Vertically Enhanced Tube with Concave and Convex Surfaces","authors":"Jiyu Zheng, Liang Zhang, Zheng Liang, Bojia Wei, Zhongchao Yan, Xin Chen","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2340145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2340145","url":null,"abstract":"Condensation heat transfer enhancement technology is an important problem for heat exchangers. The air-steam condensation inside a vertically enhanced tube with concave and convex surfaces is analy...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Coupled Depletion Perturbation Theory Methodology in Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Depletion Simulations","authors":"Benjamin R. Murphy, Christopher M. Perfetti","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2332010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332010","url":null,"abstract":"This work develops a depletion perturbation theory methodology coupled with generalized perturbation theory to produce fully coupled nuclide number density sensitivity coefficients for cross sectio...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Ishaq, Muhammad Zaman, Muhammad Ilyas, Alam Nawaz Khan Wardag, Mansoor H. Inayat
{"title":"Numerical Investigation of Process Parameter Effects on Flow Oscillations in a Natural Circulation Boiling Integral PWR-Type SMR Test Rig","authors":"Muhammad Ishaq, Muhammad Zaman, Muhammad Ilyas, Alam Nawaz Khan Wardag, Mansoor H. Inayat","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2328967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2328967","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative reactor designs like small modular reactors (SMRs) have the potential to operate in a natural circulation (NC) boiling mode, but this mode introduces flow oscillations that pose a risk t...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulating Fuel Assembly Bowing: A Neutron-Diffusion Method Based on Arbitrary Quadrilateral Node and Conformal Mapping Technique","authors":"Hongchun Wu, Lin Guo, Chenghui Wan","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2334988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2334988","url":null,"abstract":"Fuel assembly bowing, widely observed in a pressurized water reactor (PWR), often results in an asymmetrical power distribution. This paper proposes a neutron-diffusion method that integrates the a...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140933225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty Benchmarks for Time-Dependent Transport Problems","authors":"W. Bennett, R. G. McClarren","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2333092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2333092","url":null,"abstract":"Verification solutions for uncertainty quantification (UQ) are presented for time-dependent transport problems where , the scattering ratio, is uncertain. The method of polynomial chaos expansions ...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arthur Le Bars, Andrea Gammicchia, Simone Santandrea
{"title":"Optimizations of the Accelerated Axial Polynomial Method of Characteristics of the APOLLO3® Deterministic Neutron Transport Code","authors":"Arthur Le Bars, Andrea Gammicchia, Simone Santandrea","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2328962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2328962","url":null,"abstract":"For some years now, the TDT (two- and three-dimensional transport) solver of the APOLLO3® deterministic neutron transport code has been able to perform lattice calculations on three-dimensional ext...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140637141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Possibility of Achieving Optimal Operating Modes of Hyperspeed Model Gas Centrifuges: 3D Numerical Simulation","authors":"S. V. Bogovalov, I. V. Tronin, A. V. Vasilyev","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2332021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332021","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, numerical simulation methods are used to study issues related to the optimal operating modes of hyperspeed (rotor velocity 1000 m/s and above) model gas centrifuges (GCs) of various ...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140637241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Fission Matrix Databases with Nonuniform Fuel Temperature Profiles for Static and Transient Calculations","authors":"Maximiliano Dalinger, William Walters","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2328944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2328944","url":null,"abstract":"Monte Carlo codes are the most accurate way to solve the neutronics in a reactor core but can be computationally expensive, especially for when feedback effects are considered or for transient calc...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140637242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MaCaw: Domain-Decomposed Monte Carlo Neutral Particle Transport on Unstructured Mesh in MOOSE","authors":"G. Giudicelli, R. Crowder, L. Harbour, D. Gaston","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2332009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332009","url":null,"abstract":"MaCaw is a Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE)–based application that enables domain-decomposed neutral particle transport calculations in MOOSE. It leverages MOOSE’s ray-tr...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140610704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}