A Transport Synthetic Acceleration method for transport iterations /

Analysis for a continuous set of equations and report TSA

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramone, Gilles Lionel, 1972-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Description
Summary:Analysis for a continuous set of equations and report TSA
behavior. We show that a previously proposed TSA method is
Characteristics and two Bilinear Discontinuous methods, and
development and the realization of the method for an
especially well. We further demonstrate that TSA achieves a
features represent simple and efficient improvements to the
find that discretization enhances TSA performance. We then
for descritized transport equations, using Step-
function of the scattering ratio. We devote the final
isotropic source in XY geometry. We carry out a Fourier
Iteration, regardless of discretization parameters or
itself a simplified transport problem. We describe the
materials and emphasize that this gain is an increasing
method. We test TSA on a series of physical problems and
methods to iteratively solve within-group scattering
order problem, to use a crude quadrature set in the low-order
problem and to set the number of low-order iterations per
problems. A single iteration in these schemes consists of a
propose a set of parameters for which the method behaves
propose to implement a Conjugate Gradient method on the low-
section to some conclusions and suggestions for future work.
stable and rapidly convergent. We follow the same procedure
substantial reduction in computational cost over Source
transport sweep followed by a low-order calculation which is
transport sweep to a finite value. We prove that these
unstable in two dimensions but that our modifications make it
We present a family of Transport Synthetic Acceleration (TSA)
Item Description:"Major subject: Nuclear Engineering".
Vita.
Physical Description:viii, 89 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.