Entry Date:
August 4, 2011

Energy Expansion

Principal Investigator Benoit Forget


The energy variable is by far the most complex of the variables treated in deterministic simulations due to the resonant nature of the interaction probability with matter. A new approach called the discrete generalized multigroup method was developed at MIT that alleviates many of the previous approximations and allows the efficient treatment of many spectral effects arising in advanced fuels and proposed reactor designs.