A quasidiffusion method for unstructured quadrilateral meshes in 2d XY geometry

William A. Wieselquist, Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

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Abstract

In this paper we present the quasidiffusion (QD) method for solving the transport equation in Cartesian XY geometry on multi-level spatial meshes of arbitrary quadrilaterals. For the low-order quasidiffusion (LOQD) equations, we propose a second-order finite difference discretization. For the transport equation, we use a conservative short characteristics method with linear approximation of the scattering source term and parabolic representation of the angular flux on incoming faces. We analyze numerical convergence of the LOQD and transport discretizations individually using tests with manufactured solutions. We then present numerical test results for the QD discretization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAmerican Nuclear Society - International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009
Pages3436-3449
Number of pages14
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009 - Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Duration: May 3 2009May 7 2009

Publication series

NameAmerican Nuclear Society - International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009
Volume5

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySaratoga Springs, NY
Period05/3/0905/7/09

Keywords

  • Discretization of PDEs
  • Particle transport equation
  • Quadrilateral meshes
  • Radiative transfer

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