ntkfoam: an OpenFOAM based neutron transport kinetics solver for nuclear reactor simulation

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2019.09.015MaRDI QIDQ2217153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yu Ma, Junhe Yang, Ya-Hui Wang

Publication date 18 December 2020

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2019.09.015

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methodOpenFOAMcoupling calculationneutron transport kineticsntkFoam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

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• Chebyshev spectral-S_N method for the neutron transport equation
• GeN-Foam
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Cited in

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• 2D Numerical simulation of a low mach nuclear core model with stiffened gas using freefem++
• A discrete-ordinates variational nodal method for heterogeneous neutron Boltzmann transport problems
• Multi-physics coupling simulation of small mobile nuclear reactor with Finite element-based models
• ntkfoam
• coronaChargingFoam: an OpenFOAM based solver for multi-physical simulations of direct unipolar diffusion charging of aerosol particles

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• GeN-Foam
• AutoMOC
• ANSYS-CFX
• OpenFOAM

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