NEA-0167 LIE-PN.

LIE-PN, Pn Neutron Transport in Radial Geometry Cell with Source Problems Calculation

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: LIE-PN.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
LIE-PN	NEA-0167/01	Tested	01-OCT-1967

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-0167/01	IBM 360 series	IBM 360 series

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED

Time independent PN spherical harmonics neutron transport equations, multi-group r-geometry cell with annular zones, choice of boundary conditions, and of significance of eigenvalue. Source problems.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION: Lie series.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Value of N in PN, number of energy groups and number of zones are limited only by size of core storage, which is dynamically allocated.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME: A 3 group P3 problem takes 31.4 seconds.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

Dynamic dimensioning and positioning of FORTRAN arrays. Format free input.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

Programme routines FF1 for format free input are included in LIE-PN.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-0167/01	01-OCT-1967	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

- J. Menning and T. Auerbach:
The Application of LIE Series to Reactor Theory
Nuclear Science and Engineering - 28, 159-165 (1967).

NEA-0167/01, included references:

- R. Alpiar
LIE-PN, a PN-Spherical Harmonics, Multi-Group, Multi-Region
Programme
EIR-Bericht No.110
- R. Alpiar
Format-Free Input Routines for FORTRAN Programmes
EIR-Bericht No. 117

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: Upwards of 1000 common storage depending on problem.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-0167/01	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: FORTRAN COOP monitor.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

J. Menning, T. Auerbach, R. Alpiar EIR Wuerenlingen A.G.
Switzerland

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-0167/01

File name	File description	Records
NEA0167_01.001	SOURCE & DATA %360/65<	1578
NEA0167_01.002	TEST PROGRAMS	186
NEA0167_01.003	OUTPUT	197

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17. CATEGORIES

C. Static Design Studies

Keywords: eigenvalues, multigroup, spherical harmonics, transport theory.