Energy dependent mesh adaptivity of discontinuous isogeometric discrete ordinate methods with dual weighted residual error estimators
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Author(s)
Owens, A
Kophazi, J
Welch, J
Eaton, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In this paper a hanging-node, discontinuous Galerkin, isogeometric discretisation of the multigroup, discrete ordinates () equations is presented in which each energy group has its own mesh. The equations are discretised using Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS), which allows the coarsest mesh to exactly represent the geometry for a wide range of engineering problems of interest; this would not be the case using straight-sided finite elements. Information is transferred between meshes via the construction of a supermesh. This is a non-trivial task for two arbitrary meshes, but is significantly simplified here by deriving every mesh from a common coarsest initial mesh. In order to take full advantage of this flexible discretisation, goal-based error estimators are derived for the multigroup, discrete ordinates equations with both fixed (extraneous) and fission sources, and these estimators are used to drive an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) procedure. The method is applied to a variety of test cases for both fixed and fission source problems. The error estimators are found to be extremely accurate for linear NURBS discretisations, with degraded performance for quadratic discretisations owing to a reduction in relative accuracy of the “exact” adjoint solution required to calculate the estimators. Nevertheless, the method seems to produce optimal meshes in the AMR process for both linear and quadratic discretisations, and is ≈×100 more accurate than uniform refinement for the same amount of computational effort for a 67 group deep penetration shielding problem.
Date Issued
2017-04-15
Date Acceptance
2017-01-18
Citation
Journal of Computational Physics, 2017, 335 (1), pp.352-386
ISSN
0021-9991
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
352
End Page
386
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Computational Physics
Volume
335
Issue
1
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2017
The
Author(s).
Published
by
Elsevier
Inc.
This
is
an
open
access
article
under
the
CC
BY
license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
)
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999117300517
Grant Number
EP/J002011/1
EP/K503733/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Physics, Mathematical
Computer Science
Physics
Isogeometric analysis
Discrete ordinates
Dual weighted residual
Group-dependent mesh
Adaptive
Discontinuous Galerkin
ASSEMBLY HOMOGENIZATION TECHNIQUES
NEUTRON DIFFUSION EQUATION
FINITE-ELEMENT-METHOD
S-N EQUATIONS
TRANSPORT-EQUATION
CONSISTENCY
Applied Mathematics
01 Mathematical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-01-24