Research Article

A New Accurate Numerical Method Based on Shifted Chebyshev Series for Nuclear Reactor Dynamical Systems

Table 3

Comparison between the SCS method of order ten and various numerical methods for ramp reactivity (moderately fast reactor).

MethodsTime (s)
0.002.004.006.008.0010.011.0

- weighting1.0E-41.0000E+001.3382E+002.2283E+005.5815E+004.2781E+014.5109E+051.7919E+16
GRK5.6E-21.0000E+001.3382E+002.2284E+005.5820E+004.2786E+014.5115E+051.7904E+16
AIM1.0E-31.0000E+001.3382E+002.2284E+005.5820E+004.2786E+014.5116E+051.7916E+16
PCA1.0E-21.0000E+001.3382E+002.2278E+005.5802E+004.2772E+01
CORE1.0E-41.0000E+001.3382E+002.2285E+005.5822E+004.2790E+014.5144E+051.7957E+16
BBF1.0E-11.0000E+001.338200E+002.228442E+005.582052E+004.278629E+014.504121E+05
Hermite Polynomial1.0E-41.0000E+001.338200E+002.228440E+005.582052E+004.278630E+014.511630E+05
GAEM1.0E-11.0000E+001.338196E+002.228435E+005.582036E+004.278619E+014.511648E+05
Pade’1.0E-31.0000E+001.338198E+002.228436E+005.582037E+004.278634E+014.511685E+05
ET1.0E-31.0000E+001.3382E+002.2284E+005.5820E+004.2786E+014.5116E+05
PWS0.011.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441896E+005.582052448E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213607E+16
CATS1.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052449E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213607E+16
Accurate Solution0.0011.0000E+001.3382E+002.2284E+005.582E+004.2786E+014.5117E+05
EPCA2.0E-31.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052450E+004.278629574E+014.511636240E+051.792213608E+16
BEFDVariable1.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052449E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213607E+16
ITS2Variable1.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052449E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213608E+16
HWOM1.0000E+001.338200011E+002.228441300E+005.582043255E+004.278584501E+014.522953180E+051.828233653E+16
TTM1.0E-51.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441896E+005.582052447E+004.278629572E+014.511636238E+051.792213607E+16
TFS1.0E-21.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052449E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213607E+16
Modified ETD1.0E-21.0000E+001.338200E+002.228442E+005.582052E+004.278630E+014.511636E+05

SCS1.0E-21.0000E+001.338200050E+002.228441897E+005.582052449E+004.278629573E+014.511636239E+051.792213607E+16

is variable, the total number of iteration was 372, and the smallest time calculation per step was 0.0156 s.