Coupled Monte Carlo and thermal-fluid modeling of high temperature gas reactors using Cardinal

AJ Novak, D Andrs, P Shriwise, J Fang, H Yuan… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cardinal is an open-source application that couples OpenMC Monte Carlo transport and
NekRS computational fluid dynamics to the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation …

High-fidelity multi-physics coupling study on advanced heat pipe reactor

W Xiao, X Li, P Li, T Zhang, X Liu - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
The advanced heat pipe cooled reactor is a potential candidate to generate nuclear power
for space exploration, and exhibits strong neutron leakage and complicated multi-physics …

Exascale multiphysics nuclear reactor simulations for advanced designs

E Merzari, S Hamilton, T Evans, M Min… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
ENRICO is a coupled application developed under the US Department of Energy's Exascale
Computing Project (ECP) targeting the modeling of advanced nuclear reactors. It couples …

Cardinal: A lower-length-scale multiphysics simulator for pebble-bed reactors

E Merzari, H Yuan, M Min, D Shaver… - Nuclear …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper demonstrates a multiphysics solver for pebble-bed reactors, in particular, for
Berkeley's pebble-bed-fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (PB-FHR)(Mark I …

MC21/COBRA-IE and VERA-CS multiphysics solutions to VERA core physics benchmark problem# 6

BN Aviles, DJ Kelly, DL Aumiller, DF Gill… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) core physics benchmark
problem# 6, 3D Hot Full Power (HFP) assembly, from the Consortium for Advanced …

Development of an efficient tightly coupled method for multiphysics reactor transient analysis

JP Senecal, W Ji - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Picard Iteration is a widely used coupling method for multiphysics simulations. This method
allows one to directly leverage existing and well-developed single-physics programs without …

Coupled neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and fuel performance analysis of dispersion plate-type fuel assembly in a cohesive way

Z Yue, Y He, F Xiang, Y Wu, J Zhang, W Tian… - … Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The nuclear reactor is a multi-physics and multiscale coupling system. The conditions of
high temperature and high neutron flux in the reactor pose a significant challenge to the …

MC21/CTF and VERA multiphysics solutions to VERA core physics benchmark progression problems 6 and 7

DJ Kelly III, AE Kelly, BN Aviles, AT Godfrey… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The continuous energy Monte Carlo neutron transport code, MC21, was coupled to
the CTF subchannel thermal-hydraulics code using a combination of Consortium for …

Neutronic modeling of megawatt-class heat pipe reactors

H Guo, KY Feng, HY Gu, X Yao, L Bo - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Megawatt-class heat pipe reactors (HPRs) have been identified as a candidate for the
decentralized electricity markets, for instance, remote regions, island communities, and …

Monte Carlo simulations of the SPERT III E-core transient experiments

D Mancusi, M Faucher, A Zoia - The European Physical Journal …, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
We perform simulations of two reactivity-insertion experiments in the SPERT III E-core
nuclear research reactor. The simulations use the TRIPOLI-4® Monte Carlo neutron …