Published April 2017 | Version v1
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Preliminary serpent-MOOSE coupling and implementation of functional expansion tallies in Serpent

  • 1. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
  • 2. Idaho State University, Nuclear Engineering, Pocatello, ID (United States)
  • 3. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo (Finland)

Description

Modeling nuclear reactors is complex, requiring multiphysics solutions between neutronics, thermal hydraulics, and fuel behavior. A preliminary Serpent-MOOSE coupling has been created, with consistent results demonstrated for a single fuel element with simple diffusion. In parallel with this work, Functional Expansion Tallies (FETs) have been implemented in Serpent. These promise to ease mesh conversion for future coupling, as well as reduce error around bin boundaries and decrease memory requirements. (authors)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Korean Nuclear Society - KNS
Imprint Place
Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Imprint Pagination
4 p.

Conference

Title
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering 2017
Acronym
M and C 2017
Dates
16-20 Apr 2017
Place
Jeju (Korea, Republic of)

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
53074319
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ERRORS; IMPLEMENTATION; REACTORS; THERMAL HYDRAULICS
Descriptors DEC
FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULICS; MECHANICS; SIMULATION

Optional Information

Notes
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