Hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo neutronics

DOI10.1137/120880021MaRDI QIDQ2870668zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeffrey Willert, C. T. Kelley, D. A. Knoll, H. Park

Publication date 21 January 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/99710942c9a24e1a4fd3e8fbd899b50105177f27

zbMATH Keywords

hybrid methodsJacobian-free Newton-Krylov algorithmMonte Carlo simulationneutron transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

Review text

The authors propose a hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo solver for the monoenergetic transport equation in slab geometry with isotropic scattering NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \mu\frac{\partial\psi(x,\mu)}{\partial x} +\Sigma_t(x)\psi(x,\mu) =\frac{1}{2}[\Sigma_s(x)\int_{-1}^{1}\psi(x,\mu')d\mu'+q(x)]NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for \(0<x<\tau\) and \( \mu\in[-1,0)\cup(0,1]\) and boundary conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \psi(0,\psi)=\psi_l(\mu),\, \mu>0;\,\psi(\tau,\mu)=\psi_{\tau},\, \mu<0.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The authors derive a new analytic formula for the Jacobian-vector product within the Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov algorithm. The motivation for this is to alleviate the Monte Carlo noise issues which will be amplified within the standard finite-difference Jacobian-vector product approximation. The impact on algorithm performance driven by different choices for Monte Carlo tally procedures is also considered.

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