Simplified-DPN treatment of the neutron transport equation

M Nazari, A Zolfaghari, M Abbasi - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper the simplified double-spherical harmonics, SDPN, approximation of the neutron
transport equation is proposed. The SDPN equations are derived from the multi-group DPN …

Application of artificial intelligence techniques in modeling attenuation behavior of ionization radiation: a review

JK Boahen, SA Elsagheer Mohamed… - Radiation Detection …, 2023 - Springer
Introduction Shielding of ionizing radiations, which are gamma rays, neutrons, and X-rays,
can be achieved by attenuating its intensity using different materials. Protection is therefore …

The Multi-PN angular discretization method of the neutral-particle transport equation for radiation shielding calculations

M Falabino, D Sciannandrone, E Masiello… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The well-known Discrete Ordinates (SN) approximation is little effective in
multidimensional radiation shielding calculations. In the presence of geometrically large and …

A finite element method for angular discretization of the radiation transport equation on spherical geodesic grids

MK Bhattacharyya, D Radice - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Discrete ordinate (SN) and filtered spherical harmonics (FP N) based schemes have been
proven to be robust and accurate in solving the Boltzmann transport equation but they have …

Implementation of the SP3 approximation for the neutron transport equation in FENNECS

S lo Muzio - 2024 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
For the safety assessment of (v) SMR and MMR, having small and heterogeneous
configurations, the GRS finite element based neutronic code FENNECS was equipped with …

Contribution to ray-effect mitigation in discrete-ordinates based transport solvers

M Falabino - 2022 - theses.hal.science
Over the years, a growing interest in the application of deterministic solvers to the
calculationof radiation shielding problems has been observed. Deterministic solvers can …

A Comparative Analysis of Neutron Transport Calculations Based on Variational Formulation and Finite Element Approaches

K Sadeghi, SH Ghazaie, E Sokolova, A Zolfaghari… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of continuous and discontinuous approaches of the finite element method
(FEM) to the neutron transport equation (NTE) has been investigated. A comparative …

On a Parametric Representation of the Angular Neutron Flux in the Energy Range from 1 eV to 10 MeV

LFF Chaves Barcellos, BEJ Bodmann… - … and Analytic Methods in …, 2020 - Springer
In this work a parametric representation of the angular neutron flux in the energy range from
1 eV to 10 MeV is determined from a Monte Carlo simulation with initially 10 6 neutrons. The …