Nuclear Engineering and Technology • Vol 49 • No 6
Practical resolution of angle dependency of multigroup resonance cross sections using parametrized spectral superhomogenization factors
August 2017 • Hansol Park, Han Gyu Joo
Based on the observation that ignoring the angle dependency of multigroup resonance cross sections within a fuel pellet would result in nontrivial underestimation of the spatial self-shielding of flux, a parametrized spectral superhomogenization (SPH) factor library (PSSL) method is developed as a practical means of resolving the problem. Region-wise spectral SPH factors are calculated by the normal and transport corrected SPH iterations after ultrafine group slowing down calculations over various light water reac…