APOLLO II: A User-Oriented, Portable, Modular Code for Multigroup Transport Assembly Calculations

APOLLO II is a new, multigroup transport code under development at the Commissariat à I'Energie Atomique. The code has a modular structure and uses sophisticated software for data structuralization, dynamic memory management, data storage, and user macrolanguage. This paper gives an overview of the main methods used in the code for (a) multidimensional collision probability calculations, (b) leakage calculations, and (c) homogenization procedures. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the potential of the modular structure of the code and the novel multilevel flat-ßux representation used in the calculation of the collision probabilities.