Iterative schemes for the neutron diffusion equation. (Q1416341)

The paper is concerned with the need to provide fast reliable numerical schemes for the solution of neutron diffusion equations arising in the nuclear industry. It is clear that for safety and monitoring purposes there is a need for rapid solution of these equations. The methods considered here are two new methods (described by the authors as Method A and Method B) that arise through accelerating different stationary iterative methods and they are compared with the performance of restarted GMRES, BICGSTAB and TFQMR. The problem used as the basis for experiments is a bidimensional seed-blanket transient and for this equation the proposed methods are shown to be effective.