Research Article

Unstructured Grids and the Multigroup Neutron Diffusion Equation

Figure 2

When a continuous domain (a) is meshed with an unstructured grid, there appears a geometric condition known as the staircase effect (b). For the same number of nodes, unstructured grids reproduce the original geometry better (c).
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(a) Continuous two-dimensional domain
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(b) Structured grid
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(c) Unstructured grid