Preceeidng of PHYSOR2014, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28 - Oct. 03, 2014, on CD-ROM(2014)
As an effort to achieve efficient yet accurate transport transient calculations for power reactors, the conditional transport update scheme in method of characteristics (MOC) based coarse mesh finite difference (CMFD) transient calculation is developed. In this scheme, the transport calculations serves as an online group constant generator for the 3-D CMFD transient calculation and the solution of 3-D transient problem is mainly obtained from the 3-D CMFD transient calculation. In order to reduce the computational burden of the intensive transport calculation, the transport updates is conditionally performed by monitoring change of composition and core condition. This efficient transient transport method is applied to 3x3 assembly rod ejection problem to examine the effectiveness and accuracy of the conditional transport calculation scheme.
