Research and Verification of the One-Step Resonance and Transport Methods Based on the OpenMOC Code
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Abstract
The one-step method in reactor physics has become one of the important research directions in recent two decades. Based on the open-source OpenMOC code, the following work was carried out. Firstly, the global–local resonance method with multi-group and continuous neutron libraries was researched and established. Next, based on the 2D and 3D MOC solver, the 2D/1D and the MOC/DD transport methods were realized in OpenMOC. Finally, verification of the transport and resonance methods was conducted using the C5G7 macro benchmark and the VERA micro benchmark. The numerical results demonstrated that the average eigenvalue deviation was 44 pcm and average maximum pin power distribution deviation was 0.37% in the VERA-2 benchmark, which showed the good accuracy of the resonance method. As for the transport method, the 3DMOC method exhibited better accuracy in strong anisotropic cases, but the computational time was 38 times that of the 2D/1D method.
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OpenAlex topics: Fault Detection and Control Systems · Nuclear reactor physics and engineering · Nuclear Materials and Properties
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State Key Laboratory of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China
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National Key Laboratory of Nuclear Reactor Technology
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