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The NECP-X High-fidelity Neutronics Code
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NECP-X is a high-fidelity neutronics code for reactor physics calculations.
It provides the capability of simulating reactor phenomenon with 3D high
resolutions.
NECP-X simulates neutrons' behavior in nuclear reactor by solving the neutron
Boltzmann equation in a deterministic way. Nuclear reaction between neutrons and
fissionable nuclides produce massive energy, so to accurately simulate the
neutrons' behavior would reveal what happens in the nuclear reactor,
especially the location and frequency that fission reaction occurs. By solving the
deterministic form of neutron Boltzmann equation, we will know whether the reactor is
critical or not and learn the distribution of fission reactions. This would help us to
understand the reactor in a more comprehensive way.
Compared to those industrial codes, NECP-X could provide results with much higher resolution
and could deal with more general reactor types with these features:
- A more detailed description of the geometry
- More accurate models of resonance and transport calculations
NECP-X was originally developed by members of
`Nuclear Engineering Computational Physics (NECP) lab`_ at `Xi'an Jiaotong University`_. The
project was started in March 2015. Current main contributors are Zhouyu Liu,
Jun Chen, Chen Zhao, Qingming He, Xingjian Wen, Bo Wang, Dangwei Ma, Liangliang,
Lu Cao, Yang Liu, Xinyu Zhou, Xiaobei Xu, Yijun Zhang.
.. figure:: _images/members.png
.. _Nuclear Engineering Computational Physics (NECP) lab: http://necp.xjtu.edu.cn
.. _Xi'an Jiaotong University: http://www.xjtu.edu.cn
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