GENESIS - A TRANSPORT SOLVER IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL HETEROGENEOUS GEOMETRY BASED ON THE LEAF METHOD

摘要

A heterogeneous transport solver in three dimensional geometry, GENESIS, is being developed incorporating recent developments of the method of characteristics (MOC) in three dimensional geometry. The Legendre Expansion of Angular Flux (LEAF) method is implemented in the GENESIS code, in which neutron transport is calculated in two-dimensional "characteristics planes" rather than in one-dimensional characteristics lines adopted in the conventional approach of 3D MOC. Unlike the planner MOC method that combines 2D MOC calculations through axial leakages, the GENESIS code explicitly considers angular and spatial dependence of outgoing and incoming angular fluxes between axial planes. Thus the GENESIS code eliminates a crucial approximation used in the planner MOC method. The GENESIS code can handle flexible shape of objects in rectangular or hexagonal geometry. Two-level, multi-group generalized coarse mesh rebalance (GCMR) acceleration method is adopted for efficient convergence of neutron transport calculation. Performance of the GENESIS code is verified through various benchmark calculations. The calculation results indicate the fidelity of the GENESIS code.