On the spectrum of discrete-ordinates neutron transport problems

Jesús Pérez Curbelo

doi:10.15392/bjrs.v9i2.1662

Authors

Jesús Pérez Curbelo Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Instituto Politécnico (IPRJ/UERJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2417-071X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15392/bjrs.v9i2.1662

Keywords:

transport equation, discrete ordinates, spectral analysis, discrete eigenvalues, anisotropic scattering

Abstract

Over the last six decades, the discrete spectrum of the neutron transport operator has been widely studied. Important theoretical results can be found in the literature regarding the one-speed linear transport equation with anisotropic scattering. In this work, the discrete-ordinates (SN) transport problem with anisotropic scattering has been considered and the discrete spectrum results in multiplying media have been corroborated. The numerical results obtained for the dominant SN eigenvalues agreed with the ones for the analytic problem reported in the literature up to a triplet scattering order. A compact methodology to perform the spectral analysis to multigroup SN problems with high anisotropy order in the scattering and fission reactions is also presented in this paper.

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