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A collision-based hybrid method for the discrete ordinates approximation of the multigroup neutron transport equation is developed for two-dimensional time-dependent problems. At each time step, this algorithm splits the neutron transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Ben Whewell , Ryan G. McClarren

The multigroup neutron transport equations has been widely used to study the interactions of neutrons with their background materials in nuclear reactors. High-resolution simulations of the multigroup neutron transport equations using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Fande Kong , Yaqi Wang , Derek R. Gaston , Alexander D. Lindsay , Cody J. Permann , Richard C. Martineau

The multigroup neutron transport equations have been widely used to study the motion of neutrons and their interactions with the background materials. Numerical simulation of the multigroup neutron transport equations is computationally…

Neutron cross section matrices for fission and scattering data are required for each material, temperature, and enrichment level to calculate the neutron transport equation accurately. This information can be a limiting factor when using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Ben Whewell , Ryan G. McClarren

In this paper a methodology is described to estimate multigroup neutron source distributions which must be added into a subcritical system to drive it to a steady state prescribed power distribution. This work has been motivated by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-26 Leonardo , R. C. Moraes , Hermes Alves Filho , Ricardo C. Barros

In this work we present a solution of the one-dimensional spherical symmetric time-dependent neutron transport equation (written for a moving system in lagrangian coordinates) by using the characteristic method. One of the objectives is to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Dalton Ellery Girao Barroso

We present an algorithm for the numerical solution of the equations governing combustion in porous inert media. The discretization of the flow problem is performed by the mixed finite element method, the transport problems are discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Peter Knabner , Gerhard Summ

We investigate the application of tensor-train (TT) algorithms to multigroup thermal radiation transport (i.e., photon radiation transport). The TT framework enables simulations at discretizations that might otherwise be computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Aditya S. Deshpande , Patrick D. Mullen , Alex A. Gorodetsky , Joshua C. Dolence , Chad D. Meyer , Jonah M. Miller , Luke F. Roberts

We present a numerical method for solving the time-independent thermal radiative transfer (TRT) equation or the neutron transport (NT) equation when the opacity or cross-section varies rapidly in energy (frequency). The approach is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 T. S. Haut , C. Ahrens , A. Jonko , R. Lowrie , A. Till

Charged particle transport is an important energy transport mode in the combustion process of inertial confinement fusion plasma. On the one hand, charged particles inside the hot spot have a strong non-equilibrium effect, so it is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Chang Liu , Bao Du , Peng Song

For a number of applications like low-source reactor start-up or neutron coincidence counting it is necessary to take into account the stochastic nature of neutron transport and go beyond the average neutron density, which is solution of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Philippe Humbert

We propose a novel strategy for disentangling proton collisions at hadron colliders such as the LHC that considerably improves over the current state of the art. Employing a metric inspired by optimal transport problems as the cost function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Loukas Gouskos , Fabio Iemmi , Sascha Liechti , Benedikt Maier , Vinicius Mikuni , Huilin Qu

The multigroup neutron transport criticality calculations using modern supercomputers have been widely employed in a nuclear reactor analysis for studying whether or not a system is self-sustaining. However, the design and development of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Fande Kong

We consider a standard elliptic partial differential equation and propose a geometric multigrid algorithm based on Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) maps for hybridized high-order finite element methods. The proposed unified approach is applicable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Tim Wildey , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Tan Bui-Thanh

Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) presents significant computational challenges due to the stiff, nonlinear coupling between radiation and material energy, particularly in multigroup, high-fidelity transport models. In this work, we develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Olivier , James S. Warsa , HyeongKae Park

The Neutron Transport Equation (NTE) describes the flux of neutrons through inhomogeneous fissile medium. Whilst well treated in the nuclear physics literature (cf. [9, 27]), the NTE has had a somewhat scattered treatment in mathematical…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Alex M. G. Cox , Simon C. Harris , Emma Horton , Andreas E. Kyprianou

While the energy-dependent neutron diffusion equation is widely employed in nuclear engineering, its status as an approximation to the transport equation is not yet completely understood, and several different approximations are in use to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Gabriele Burgio , Christian Reiter , Stefano Lorenzi

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

The transport approach is a useful tool to study dynamics of non-equilibrium systems. For heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies, where both the smooth nucleon potential and the hard-core nucleon-nucleon collision are important, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-02 Jun Xu

We present a formulation and numerical algorithm to extend the scheme for grey radiation magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) developed by Jiang (2021) to include the frequency dependence via the multi-group approach. The entire frequency space can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Yan-Fei Jiang
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