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Parallel solvers for the transient multigroup neutron diffusion equations

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
198 KB
Volume
47
Category
Article
ISSN
0029-5981

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✦ Synopsis

For the safety and the control of a nuclear power plant it is necessary to simulate the constituent processes on a computer system. The three-dimensional multigroup neutron di usion equations are commonly used to describe the nuclear ÿssion in the reactor core. They form a complicated system of coupled parabolic partial di erential equations (PDEs) whose solution can involve very intensive computing. In this paper this system of PDEs is discretized using a special cell-centred mixed ÿnite volume method (NEM-M0) in space, and a method that combines Crank-Nicholson and the BDF(2)-method in time. The linear equation systems which arise are solved with multi-grid as well as with preconditioned BiCGStab. The kernel of both solution methods is an e ective Block-SOR method that makes use of the particular structure of the linear equation systems. The parallelization strategy is based on a grid partitioning that distributes the data and the work homogeneously on the processors. Finally, the program was tested for three typical reactor simulation problems on grids with di ering coarseness. The speedup achieved by parallelizing multi-grid and preconditioned Bi-CGStab was outstanding for all examples; even superlinear in some cases. Moreover, the parallel execution times were better than the parallel execution times of other established reactor simulation codes.

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