DIF3D-VARIANT 11.0: A Decade of Updates
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
The DIF3D code has been a workhorse of fast reactor analysis work at Argonne National Laboratory for over 30 years. In 1995, a transport option called VARIANT was added to DIF3D to improve the flux solutions for fast reactor problems. VARIANT performs nodal neutron transport calculations using PN or SPN theory in Cartesian and hexagonal two- and threedimensional geometries. Because of the computing capabilities at that time, VARIANT was restricted to 33 group P3 flux approximations with P1 scattering. Clearly computer memory capabilities have increased since then and thus large space-angle-energy approximations are possible. This manuscript serves as an update to the theory section of the original manual and details more than a decade worth of changes made to DIF3D to make DIF3D 11.0.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1127298
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/NE-14/1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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