ORCID iD
0000-0001-5417-5701
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This work presents an application of the Second-Order Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-ASAM) to the neutron transport Boltzmann equation that models a multiplying subcritical system comprising a nonfission neutron source to compute efficiently and exactly all of the first- and second-order functional derivatives (sensitivities) of a detector’s response to all of the model’s parameters, including isotopic number densities, microscopic cross sections, fission spectrum, sources, and detector response function. As indicated by the general theoretical considerations underlying the 2nd-ASAM, the number of computations required to obtain the first and second orders increases linearly in augmented Hilbert spaces as opposed to increasing exponentially in the original Hilbert space. The results presented in this work are currently being implemented in several production-oriented three-dimensional neutron transport code systems for analyzing specific subcritical systems.
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Publication Info
Published in Nuclear Science and Engineering, Volume 193, Issue 6, 2019, pages 555-600.
Rights
© 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
APA Citation
Cacuci, D. G. (2019). Application of the second-order comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology to compute first- and second-order sensitivities of flux functionals in a multiplying system with source. Nuclear Science and Engineering, 193(6), 555–600 https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1553910 15.