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RSICC CODE PACKAGE CCC-818

 

1.         NAME AND TITLE

PNMultiGroup Neutron Transport.

 

2.         CONTRIBUTOR

            Central Technical Services, Risley, United Kingdom through  the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

3.         CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

            Fortran IV; IBM 370 Series (C00818I037000).

 

4.         NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

PN solves the static multigroup neutron transport equation in one, two or three dimensions.

 

5.         METHOD OF SOLUTION

The flux is expanded in spherical harmonics.  Diffusion type equations are obtained for the even moments and these are solved using over relaxation methods.

 

6.         RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

10000 mesh points in 37 groups.

 

7.         TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

            Problem dependent.

 

8.         COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

IBM 370 Series - 590 kbytes of fast store and 6 disc files.

 

9.         COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

            RIOS of ICL 470. OS of IBM 370.

 

10.       REFERENCES

a) Included Documentation

J. K. Fletcher, “The Solution of the Multigroup Neutron Transport Equation Using Spherical Harmonics,” The Reactor Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, TRG Report 2547(R) (August 1974).

 

11.       CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

            The package is distributed on a CD with a compressed zip file including source files,  JCL, documentation and sample data and output.

 

12.       DATE OF ABSTRACT

            December 2013.

 

KEYWORDS: MULTIGROUP, NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY, ONE-DIMENSIONAL, SPERICAL HARMONICS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL