ANALYSIS AND BENCHMARKING OF PENTRAN CODE USING THE OECD-NEA BENCHMARK PROBLEMS

摘要

It is our pleasure to be able to contribute this paper to a special session honoring Dr. Enrico Sartori, whose effort and devotion have resulted in significant international collaborations, enhancement in particle transport methods and various reactor physics problems through benchmarking, and ease of access to latest nuclear data and nuclear codes. In this paper, we overview our past efforts in benchmarking the PENTRAN code using different OECD-NEA benchmark problems. PENTRAN has been benchmarked based on the VENUS-3 critical facility, the Kobayashi benchmark problems, and C7G5 MOX eigenvalue problem. The paper presents the results obtained, and discusses the lessons learned.