SERPENT and Multiphysics

26 févr. 2015, 09:00 → 27 févr. 2015, 17:00 Europe/Paris

Salle 9 (LPSC Grenoble)

Elsa Merle-Lucotte, Manuele Aufiero, Pablo Rubiolo

SERPENT and Multiphysics

list_of_participants list_of_participants.pdf

list_of_participants_email list_of_participants_email.pdf

jeudi 26 février

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome

09:00 Welcome and coffee

09:30 Welcome from the Groupe de Physique des Réacteurs

Welcome and presentation of the research activities of the Reactor Physics Group of the LPSC

Orateur: Pablo Rubiolo

Slides pablo.pdf

10:00 Presentation of the MSFR reactor concept

Orateur: Elsa Merle-Lucotte

Transparents SerpentWorkshop-introMSFR_feb15-final.pdf SerpentWorkshop-introMSFR_feb15-final.pptx

10:30 → 12:00 Introduction to SERPENT

10:30 Introduction to SERPENT

Orateur: Jaakko Leppanen (VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND)

Slides jaakko.pdf

11:15 Multi-physics capabilities in Serpent 2

Orateur: Ville Valtavirta (VTT)

Slides ville.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Introduction to OpenFOAM

13:30 OpenFOAM in Nuclear Applications

Orateur: Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI, Switzerland))

Transparents presentation_IClifford.pdf

14:30 → 17:40 Multiphysics experiences and projects

14:30 The Transient Fission Matrix Approach using SERPENT - Application to Flattop experiment and MSFR coupling

Orateur: Axel LAUREAU (CNRS/IN2P3/LPSC (Grenoble, France))

Transparents SerpentWorkshop-TFMapproach-AxelLaureau.pdf

15:00 GeN-Foam: a novel OpenFOAM® based multi-physics solver for 2D/3D transient analysis of nuclear reactors

Orateur: Carlo Fiorina (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI, Switzerland))

15:30 First test of a minimalistic "Nodal Drift Method" for spatial kinetics

Orateur: Pierre Prévot

Slides pierre.pdf

16:00 Break

16:30 Serpent-OpenFOAM coupling for criticality accidents modelling -- Definition of a benchamrk for MSRs multiphysics modelling

Orateur: M. Manuele Aufiero (LPSC/IN2P3/CNRS Grenoble)

Slides manuele.pdf

17:00 Reduced order methods: application to reactor core spatial dynamics

Orateur: Alberto Sartori (Politecnico di Milano (Italy))

Slides alberto.pdf

vendredi 27 février

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 12:15 Multiphysics experiences and projects

10:00 Reduced order modelling for dynamics and control of Lead-cooled Fast Reactors

Orateur: Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano (Italy))

Slides stefano.pdf

10:30 Nuclear Energy Research in Cambridge

Orateur: Eugene SHWAGERAUS (University of Cambridge)

Slides eugene.pdf

10:50 Overview of Serpent related activities at HZDR

Orateur: Emil Fridman (HZDR, Dresden, Germany)

Slides emil.pptx

11:10 Sensitivity analysis in burnup calculations with Monte Carlo

Orateur: Adrien Bidaud (LPSC)

Slides adrien.pptx

11:30 Overview of Serpent related activities at EDF

Orateur: Dr Ansar Calloo (EDF)

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

Invited lunch, please register to the lunch in the registration form

13:45 → 14:45 Visit to the FFFER facility

14:45 → 17:00 Special interest groups