The Study on Homogeneous Parameters of Light Water Reactor by the Nodal Diffusion Method

Abstract:

Recent progress in the development of coarse-mesh nodal methods for the numerical solution of the neutron diffusion and transport equations is reviewed. Compared with earlier nodal simulators, more recent nodal diffusion methods are characterized by the systematic derivation of spatial coupling relationships which are entirely consistent with the multi-group diffusion equation. These relationships most often are derived by developing approximations to the one-dimensional equations obtained by integrating the multidimensional diffusion equation over directions transverse to each coordinate axis. The objective of this research is to develop accurate and efficient spatial homogenization method for coarse mesh analysis of light water reactors. More sophisticated methods for computing approximate equivalence parameters are also introduced and make use of nonlinear iterations between homogenized reactor calculations and local fixed-source calculations to compute equivalence parameters. This special feature induces the need for the study on homogeneous parameters of light water reactor which takes phenomena of different scale and their interaction into account by means of the nodal diffusion method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 666)
• Pages: 144-148
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.666.144
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Zhi Bin Liu, Jin Ma, Bing Shu Wang, Xin Hui Duan
• Keywords: Homogeneous Parameters, Light Water Reactor (LWR), Mass Flow Rate, Nodal Diffusion

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