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Abstract
In this study, the Method of Characteristics (MOC) for Delayed Neutron Precursors (DNPs) is used to solve the precursors balance equation with turbulent diffusion. The diffusivity of DNPs, significantly higher than molecular diffusivity, emerges in turbulent flows from the time-averaging of the DNPs mass balance equation. To integrate this effect within the MOC framework, the advection–reaction component of the DNPs balance equation is solved using the MOC, while the diffusive source is computed from the concentration of the previous iteration. The method is validated on a 2D recirculating pipe reactor with high Reynolds number flow, comparing the MOC with diffusion to a standard finite volume (FV) discretization of the fission products balance equation. Additionally, the impact of the diffusivity term on DNP distributions and reactor reactivity is quantified as a function of the turbulent Schmidt number.
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Annals of Nuclear Energy provides an international medium for the communication of original research, ideas and developments in all areas of the field of nuclear energy science and technology. Its scope embraces nuclear fuel reserves, fuel cycles and cost, materials, processing, system and component technology (fission only), design and optimization, direct conversion of nuclear energy sources, environmental control, reactor physics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, structural analysis, fuel management, future developments, nuclear fuel and safety, nuclear aerosol, neutron physics, computer technology (both software and hardware), risk assessment, radioactive waste disposal and reactor thermal hydraulics. Papers submitted to Annals need to demonstrate a clear link to nuclear power generation/nuclear engineering. Papers which deal with pure nuclear physics, pure health physics, imaging, or attenuation and shielding properties of concretes and various geological materials are not within the scope of the journal. Also, papers that deal with policy or economics are not within the scope of the journal.
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