Efficient Parallel Solution of the 3D Stationary Boltzmann Transport Equation for Diffusive Problems

2017/10/04 by Salli Moustafa, Moustafa, Salli, François Févotte +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.01536

19 pages under submission to Journal of Computational Physics

arxiv created 2017/10/04 · arxiv updated 2017/10/05

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient parallel method for the deterministic solution of the 3D stationary Boltzmann transport equation applied to diffusive problems such as nuclear core criticality computations. Based on standard MultiGroup-Sn-DD discretization schemes, our approach combines a highly efficient nested parallelization strategy with the Piecewise Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration (PDSA) parallel technique applied for the first time to 3D transport problems. These two key ingredients enable us to solve extremely large neutronic problems involving up to 10¹² degrees of freedom in less than an hour using 64 super-computer nodes.

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