Resonance Treatment Based on Ultra-fine-group Spectrum Calculation in the AEGIS Code

Abstract

The resonance calculation method using the ultra-fine-group spectrum calculations in the AEGIS code is explained in detail. By a simple benchmark problem, it is verified that the effect of anisotropic scattering on effective cross-sections is not very large and the isotropic scattering source approximation is adequate in practical resonance calculations in LWRs. Furthermore, some efficient numerical algorithms in the ultra-fine-group calculations to reduce the computation time without large degeneration of accuracy are presented. In addition, the SPH method for energy collapsing of cross-sections is adopted in the AEGIS code to reduce the error of energy collapsing.

Through the comparison with continuous-energy Monte-Calro calculation in the pin-cell geometry, the validity of the resonance treatment in the AEGIS code is verified.

KEYWORDS:

• AEGIS
• resonance
• ultra-fine-group
• SPH
• anisotropic