Published January 1, 2012 | Version v1
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Full Core Reactor Analysis: Running Denovo on Jaguar

  • 1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN (United States)

Description

Fully-consistent, full-core, 3D, deterministic simulations using the orthogonal mesh code Denovo were run on the massively parallel computing architecture Jaguar XT5. Using energy and spatial parallelization schemes, Denovo was able to efficiently scale to over 160k processors. Cell-homogenized cross-sections were used with Step-Characteristics, Linear-Discontinuous Finite Element, and Tri-Linear-Discontinuous Finite Element spatial methods. It was determined that using the finite element methods gave considerably more accurate eigenvalue solutions for large aspect ratios meshes than those using Step-Characteristics.

Availability note (English)

Available from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN (US)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
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Conference

Title
PHYSOR 2012 - Advances in Reactor Physics - Linking Research, Industry and Education
Dates
15-20 Apr 2012
Place
Knoxville, TN (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
43079103
Subject category
S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CROSS SECTIONS; EDUCATION; EIGENVALUES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING; REACTOR PHYSICS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHYSICS; PROGRAMMING

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
NT0304000; NEAF343; AC05-00OR22725
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)