Development of restructuring template for MELCOR

In order to develop a template for the MELCOR computer code, the current data saving and transferring methods used in MELCOR were analyzed first, and then a restructured module for the SPR package was developed to be applied to MELCOR. The current MELCOR code ensures a fixed-size storage for 4 different data types, and manages the input-dependent data size by storing the data on the stacked packages. It uses a pointer variable to identify the variables between the packages. This technique causes difficult grasping of the meaning of the variables as well as a waste of memory. New features of FORTRAN90, in the meantime, make it possible to allocate the storage dynamically and to use the user-defined data type, which leads to restructured module development for the SPR package. Efficient memory treatment and an easy understanding of the code have been benefits from this developed module. The validation of the template has been done by comparing the results of the modified code with those from the existing code, and it has confirmed that the results were the same. The template for the SPR package could allow for the extension of the template to the entire code. It has expected that the template would accelerate the code domestication thanks to direct understanding of each variable and easy implementation of modified or newly developed models. (author)