SERPENT and Multiphysics

26 Feb 2015, 09:00 → 27 Feb 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

Thursday 26 February

Welcome

09:00 Welcome and coffee

1 Welcome from the Groupe de Physique des Réacteurs

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

Speaker: Pablo Rubiolo

Slides pablo.pdf

2 Presentation of the MSFR reactor concept

Speaker: Elsa Merle-Lucotte

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

Introduction to SERPENT

3 Introduction to SERPENT

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

Slides jaakko.pdf

4 Multi-physics capabilities in Serpent 2

Speaker: Ville Valtavirta (VTT)

Slides ville.pdf

12:00 Lunch

Introduction to OpenFOAM

5 OpenFOAM in Nuclear Applications

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

Transparents presentation_IClifford.pdf

Multiphysics experiences and projects

6 The Transient Fission Matrix Approach using SERPENT - Application to Flattop experiment and MSFR coupling

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

Transparents SerpentWorkshop-TFMapproach-AxelLaureau.pdf

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

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

8 First test of a minimalistic "Nodal Drift Method" for spatial kinetics

Speaker: Pierre Prévot

Slides pierre.pdf

16:00 Break

9 Serpent-OpenFOAM coupling for criticality accidents modelling -- Definition of a benchamrk for MSRs multiphysics modelling

Speaker: Mr Manuele Aufiero (LPSC/IN2P3/CNRS Grenoble)

Slides manuele.pdf

10 Reduced order methods: application to reactor core spatial dynamics

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

Slides alberto.pdf

Friday 27 February

09:30 Coffee

Multiphysics experiences and projects

11 Reduced order modelling for dynamics and control of Lead-cooled Fast Reactors

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

Slides stefano.pdf

12 Nuclear Energy Research in Cambridge

Speaker: Eugene SHWAGERAUS (University of Cambridge)

Slides eugene.pdf

13 Overview of Serpent related activities at HZDR

Speaker: Emil Fridman (HZDR, Dresden, Germany)

Slides emil.pptx

14 Sensitivity analysis in burnup calculations with Monte Carlo

Speaker: Adrien Bidaud (LPSC)

Slides adrien.pptx

15 Overview of Serpent related activities at EDF

Speaker: Dr Ansar Calloo (EDF)

12:15 Lunch

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

Visit to the FFFER facility

Special interest groups