Multigroup multi-layer models of neutron reflection and transmission for reactor transport calculations with anisotropic scattering

Abstract

In this article, we extend the one-speed multi-layer models to neutron reflection and transmission developed in our earlier work (de Abreu, M.P., 2005. Multi-layer models to neutron reflection and transmission for whole-core transport calculations, Annals of Nuclear Energy 32, 215) to multigroup transport theory. We begin by considering a two-layer boundary region, and we develop for such a region discrete ordinates models to the diffuse reflection and transmission of neutrons for multigroup nuclear reactor core problems with anisotropic scattering. We perform numerical experiments to show that our models to neutron reflection and transmission can be used to replace efficiently and accurately two nonactive boundary layers in whole-core transport calculations. We conclude this article with an inductive extension of our two-layer results to a boundary region with an arbitrary number of layers.