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Parallel Implementation of Integral Transport Methods

Emilio Fuentes, Paul J. Turinsky

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 121 / Number 2 / October 1995 / Pages 277-285

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A28564

The parallel implementation of three integral transport methods (collision probability, interface current, and current coupling collision probability) for nuclear reactor lattice calculations in two dimensions was completed. A description of this work and performance on the CM-2 and CM-5 platforms are presented here along with comparisons with the serial versions of the methods. For all three methods, the probability calculations proved to be optimal for parallel implementation. Similar success in the overall implementation was achieved only when larger geometrical domains were analyzed.