Computational Experimentation on the Finite Element Method in Bare Slab Criticality Calculations
- 1 March 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Vol. 50 (3) , 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.13182/nse73-a28984
Abstract
Based on a self-adjoint form of the one-group neutron transport equation, the finite element method is applied to the computation of the critical halfthickness of a bare slab. Different optional schemes are compared numerically. For a given order of approximation it is shown that accuracy can be improved appreciably by a proper implementation of the nonreentrant boundary condition and by using a varying element size.Keywords
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