[HTML][HTML] Variational nodal methods for neutron transport: 40 years in review

T Zhang, Z Li - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational nodal method for solving the neutron transport equation has evolved over 40
years. Based on a functional form of the Boltzmann neutron transport equation, the method …

Rattlesnake: A MOOSE-based multiphysics multischeme radiation transport application

Y Wang, S Schunert, J Ortensi, V Laboure… - Nuclear …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Advanced reactor concepts span the spectrum from heat pipe–cooled microreactors,
through thermal and fast molten-salt reactors, to gas-and salt-cooled pebble bed reactors …

Minaret, a deterministic neutron transport solver for nuclear core calculations

JY Moller, JJ Lautard - 2011 - inis.iaea.org
We present here MINARET a deterministic transport solver for nuclear core calculations to
solve the steady state Boltzmann equation. The code follows the multi-group formalism to …

Rattlesnake theory manual

Y Wang, S Schunert, V Laboure - 2018 - osti.gov
Rattlesnake is the MOOSE [1, 2](Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment)
based application for simulating the physics of radiation transport. Radiation transport …

Fast, low-memory numerical methods for radiative transfer via hp-adaptive mesh refinement

S Du, SN Stechmann - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerical solutions to the radiative transfer equation are typically computationally
expensive. The large expense arises because the solution has a high dimensionality with …

TARS: A parallel tetrahedral discontinuous finite element code for the solution of the discrete ordinates neutron transport equation

G Zhang, H Zhang - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we introduce TARS, a neutron transport code based on the discrete-ordinates
discontinuous finite element (SN-DFEM) method, which tackles existing challenges in the …

Hybrid super homogenization and discontinuity factor method for continuous finite element diffusion

V Labouré, Y Wang, J Ortensi, S Schunert… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel homogenization equivalence technique aiming to
simultaneously leverage the simplicity of the Super Homogenization (SPH) method to …

ARES: a parallel discrete ordinates transport code for radiation shielding applications and reactor physics analysis

Y Chen, B Zhang, L Zhang, J Zheng… - … and Technology of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ARES is a multidimensional parallel discrete ordinates particle transport code with arbitrary
order anisotropic scattering. It can be applied to a wide variety of radiation shielding …

Standard and goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement applied to radiation transport on 2D unstructured triangular meshes

Y Wang, JC Ragusa - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Standard and goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques are presented for
the linear Boltzmann transport equation. A posteriori error estimates are employed to drive …

Reduced-order modeling of neutron transport separated in energy by Proper Generalized Decomposition with applications to nuclear reactor physics

KA Dominesey, W Ji - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we formulate and implement an a priori Reduced-Order Model (ROM) of
neutron transport separated in energy by Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) …