The surface current method in gray Dancoff factor calculation

The Dancoff correction is important in the calculation of the effective cross section of resonant isotopes in a heterogeneous system. Although the neutron current method is a simple and straightforward approach to estimate the Dancoff factor, its use is limited to the black Dancoff factor. In this paper, we expand the current method used to determine both the black and gray Dancoff factors. The method developed also relies on a neutron transport solver, where a fixed source on a fuel rod surface has an outward direction, a cosine distribution, and a constant shape. The detector is located on the surface of the rods to measure incoming and outgoing currents;therefore, there is no need to calculate the chord length, and the development, validation, and verification of the code can be omitted. The mathematical foundation of the suggested method is derived using the integral transport equation. The effects of the moderator and lattice configuration are followed by a sensitivity analysis of the Dancoff factor for several problems, including pressurized water reactor and cluster fuel assemblies. The maximum and average relative errors of the calculated results are approximately 0.3% and 0.05%, respectively.

Improvement on application of Dancoff factor and resonance interference table

An improvement for application of Dancoff factor is developed. It combines Stamm'ler's two-term method for resonance integral calculation with neutron current method for Dancoff factor calculation. Stamm'ler's formulation, which is originally derived for the infinite lattice geometry, can be easily revised to contain the Dancoff factor explicitly, while the neutron current method can easily calculate the Dancoff factor for general irregular assembly geometry. For the resonance interference effects the resonance interference factor table is built in pairs of nuclides, only for the interference between 238 U and other resonance nuclides, spanning over a range of background cross-section and number density ratio of the pairing nuclides. A series of verification calculations have been carried out for problems of infinite lattice and single assembly geometry, with two or multiple resonance absorbers. For these verification calculations, our improvement on Dancoff factor application and resonance interference give good results.

基于改进缺陷因子方法的FCM燃料有效多群截面计算方法研究

全陶瓷微胶囊封装(FCM)燃料是重要的候选事故容错燃料,与传统燃料相比,FCM燃料的双重非均匀性使得其有效多群截面计算面临较大的挑战。本文提出一种改进的缺陷因子方法来处理FCM燃料在共振能区和非共振能区的自屏效应,实现FCM燃料的等效均匀化。通过颗粒丹可夫因子守恒来构建新的等效模型以克服传统的体积权重等效模型无法考虑燃料棒间自屏的影响;在共振能量段,基于新的等效一维球模型求解超细群慢化方程获得共振能量段的超细群缺陷因子;在非共振能量段,利用新等效模型的特征值计算获得快群和热群的多群缺陷因子;在此基础上实现FCM燃料棒的等效均匀化。本方法已在高保真中子学程序NECP-X上实现,并在一系列工况下进行了测试,与蒙特卡罗程序的比较表明,本方法能处理不同情况下的双重非均匀性,并可获得准确的有效自屏截面。

NECP-X程序中基于全局-局部耦合策略的非棒状几何燃料共振计算方法研究

基于NECP-X程序中已经研发的全局-局部耦合共振计算方法,研究了针对非棒状几何燃料的共振计算方法。首先,采用中子流方法计算真实问题的丹可夫修正因子,以处理全局的空间效应;其次,基于丹可夫修正因子等效获得小规模问题周围慢化剂的几何信息;最后,对于小规模问题燃料区的有效自屏截面的计算采用共振伪核素子群方法。将该方法应用于非棒状几何燃料数值计算,结果表明,该方法在处理非棒状几何燃料栅元的共振计算时,与蒙特卡罗结果程序相比,微观吸收截面偏差不超过1.8%,无限介质增殖因数偏差不超过110 pcm(1 pcm=10-5),具有较高的计算精度;在大规模问题的计算中,基于板状燃料的JRR-3M实验堆全堆在整个燃耗过程有效增殖因数偏差均在300pcm左右,组件功率偏差在整个燃耗过程不超过0.62%。因此,本研究提出的共振计算方法具有较高的正确率和精度。