Abstract
In this paper the simplified double-spherical harmonics ,SDPN, approximation of the neutron transport equation is proposed. The SDPN equations are derived from the multi-group DPN equations for N=1,2,3 (comparable to the SP3, SP5, and SP7 equations, respectively), and are converted into the form of second order multi-group diffusion equations. The finite element method with the variational approach is then used to numerically solve these equations. The computational performance of the SDPN method is compared with the SPN on several fixed-source and criticality test problems. The results show that the SDPN formulation generally results in parameters like criticality eigenvalue, disadvantage factors, absorption rate, etc. more accurately than the SPN, even up to an order of magnitude more precise, while the computational effort is the same for both methods.
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