Technical Meeting on the Development and Application of Open-Source Modelling and Simulation Tools for Nuclear Reactors

20 Jun 2022, 09:00 → 24 Jun 2022, 18:00 Europe/Vienna

POLIMI (Milano, Italy)

The purpose of the event is to promote and facilitate the exchange of information regarding open-source software, open-access data, and ongoing collaborations in support of research and development, as well as education and training, in nuclear science and technology. You can read more about the ONCORE initiative here.

Please read the Information Sheet for more details. 

The meeting will take place in Milano, Italy. You can find more information about the venue here.  

Abstract_Template.docx

InfoSheet_EVT2004024.pdf

Monday 20 June

13:00 → 15:00 Workshop 1: Hands-on ARMI Framework introduction

Mr Nick Touran

13:00 → 15:00 Workshop 2: OpenFOAM overview

Mr Carlo Fiorina

Workshop_OF.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Workshop 3: Hands-on OpenMC introduction

Mr Patrick Shriwise

openmc_intro.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Workshop 4: Hands-on MOOSE framework introduction

Mr Derek Gaston

Tuesday 21 June

09:00 → 09:30 Opening: Opening Session

Opening Remarks by Mr Stefano Monti, Head, Nuclear Power Technology Development Section, IAEA

Conveners: Mr Chirayu BATRA (IAEA), Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA)

09:30 → 10:30 Keynote: Keynote Speech

Convener: Eugene Shwageraus (University of Cambridge)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Panel 1: Industrial use of open-source nuclear software

Panellists:
Tim Valentine, Director of Radiation Safety Information Computational Center
Martin Freitag, Becker Technologies
Michael Fleming, Head of the Data Bank at Nuclear Energy Agency (though he has not replied to my last email)

Convener: Nicholas Touran

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:00 Poster Session

13:30 Investigating efficient coupling of Finite Element Analysis with Machine Learning to optimise a laboratory experiment.

Speaker: Rhydian Lewis (Swansea University)

ExtendedAbstract.docx

Confirmed Virtual

13:30 MULTI-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS TO PREDICT THE IRRADIATION-INDUCED CHANGE IN ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF FUSION REACTOR MATERIALS.

Speaker: Salahudeen Mohamed Kunju (Swansea University/UKAEA)

Salahudeen_Mohamed_IAEA.docx

Confirmed Virtual

13:30 Open source tools in support of multiphysics simulation for fusion

Speaker: Andrew Davis (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)

IAEA_MultiPhysics.docx

Confirmed

13:30 Verification & Validation process in the open-source TRUST/TrioCFD Platform

Speaker: Dr Julie Darona (CEA)

vv.docx

Confirmed

13:30 VERIFICATION OF MULTIPHYSICS COUPLING TECHNIQUES FOR MODELING OF MOLTEN SALT REACTORS

Speaker: Dr Jacob Groth-Jensen (seaborg technologies)

IAEA_abstract_SEALION.docx

Confirmed

13:50 Active coding assignments in nuclear reactor modelling

Speaker: Christophe Demazière (Chalmers University of Technology)

teaching_reactor_modelling_v1.0.pdf

Confirmed

13:50 Development and maintenance of OpenFOAM_RCS for German nuclear safety research related to the reactor cooling system

Speaker: Dr Ronald Lehnigk (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

Abstract_OpenFOAM_RCS_IAEA.pdf

Confirmed Online

13:50 Open source neutron noise modelling

Speaker: Christophe Demazière (Chalmers University of Technology)

CORE_SIM_v1.0.pdf

Confirmed

13:50 THE GEN-FOAM MULTI-PHYSICS SOLVER FOR REACTOR ANALYISIS: STATUS AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS

Speaker: carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

GeN-Foam_status.pdf

Confirmed

13:50 Validation of an OpenFOAM gas distribution solver for containment analysis

Speaker: Jörn Stewering (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)

Abstract Jörn Stewering.pdf

Confirmed Online

14:15 FOUNDATIONS FOR A FISSION BATTERY DIGITAL TWIN

Speaker: Jeren Browning (Idaho National Laboratory)

MAGNET Digital Twin Abstract.docx

Confirmed Online

14:15 MODIFICATION OF OPEN SOURCE MONTE CARLO CODE OPENMC TO INCLUDE TIME-DEPENDENCE IN A FISSILE SYSTEM INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL DELAYED NEUTRON PRECURSORS

Speaker: Jaime Romero-Barrientos (CCHEN)

Abstract-IAEA .docx

Confirmed

14:15 VANGARD: A GPU-BASED HIGH-SPEED PINWISE NODAL CORE ANALYSIS CODE

Speaker: SEOYOON JEON (Seoul National University)

VANGARD_IAEA_Abstract.pdf

Confirmed

14:15 “DEVELOPMENT OF CODES FOR CALCULATING THE CORROSION OF STEEL CLADDING OF FUEL ELEMENTS WITH MIXED NITRIDE FUEL, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE SEGREGATION OF IMPURITIES AT GRAIN BOUNDARIES”

Speaker: ALEXANDER IVANOV (NRC "Kurchatov Institute")

Extended Abstract. Engl. +.docx

Confirmed Online

14:40 A concept of fluid dynamic code for molten salt reactor analysis with Open FOAM

Speaker: Dr Azizul Khakim (BAPETEN (Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency))

Extended abstract_Azizul.docx

14:40 AN OPEN-SOURCE DATA-CENTRIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FAST FLUX TEST FACILITY ISOTHERMAL BENCHMARK CORE

Speaker: Nicholas Touran

fftf-armi-terrapower-extended-abstract(3).docx

Confirmed

14:40 DEVELOPMENT OF ACCESSIBLE CODES FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY ANALYSIS IN THAILAND

Speaker: Mr Wasin Vechgama (Nuclear Technology Research and Development Center, Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (Public Organization), Bangkok, Thailand)

Abstract_Template WV20210607.docx

14:40 Development of an open source tool for water hammer and fluid-structure interaction simulation in nuclear reactor systems

Speaker: Marcelo Rocha (IPEN/CNEN)

Confirmed Online

14:40 Development of Post Processor for VSOP'94 Output

Speaker: Anik Purwaningsih (National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia)

Anik_Indonesia.docx

14:40 Enabling techniques within OpenMC for dynamic models of molten salt reactors

Speaker: Mr Erik Knudsen (Copenhagen Atomics)

Confirmed

14:40 MFront: an open-source code generation tool for the rigorous management of material knowledge in the PLEIADES and MAP platforms

Speaker: Thomas Helfer (CEA)

Abstract_7062021_Final.docx

Confirmed

15:00 → 16:30 Technical Session 1-1: Advanced application of open-source tools to nuclear engineering problems

Conveners: Ms Madicken Munk (University of Illinois), Mr Paul Wilson (University of Wisconsin)

15:00 A FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING, DESIGN OPTIMIZATION AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION OF FAST SPECTRUM LIQUID FUEL MOLTEN SALT REACTORS

Speaker: Dr Kostadin Ivanov (North Carolina State University)

Extended Abstract NCSU.docx

IAEA Presentation - MSR UQ.pdf

Confirmed

15:30 USE OF OPEN-SOURCE MODELICA-BASED LIBRARIES AS SYSTEM CODE FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SIMULATION

Speaker: Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)

Modelica_paper.docx

Confirmed

16:00 FLAMEFOAM: AN OPENFOAM BASED SOLVER FOR PRACTICAL TURBULENT PREMIXED COMBUSTION SIMULATION

Speaker: Dr Mantas Povilaitis (Lithuanian Energy Institute)

extended_abstract_flameFoam.docx

flameFoam.pdf

Confirmed

Wednesday 22 June

09:00 → 11:00 Technical Session 2-1: Recent developments in open-source tools

Conveners: Raksmy Nop (CEA), Timothy Valentine (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:00 Updates On Open-Source Multiphysics Endeavors with OpenMC

Speaker: Patrick Shriwise (Argonne National Laboratory)

iaea_open_source_21.docx

ONCORE OpenMC Multiphysics.pdf

Confirmed

09:30 High performence calculation enhancement using massive parallelization with TRUST and TrioCFD

Speaker: Raksmy Nop (CEA)

MPI.docx

slides_MPI.pdf

Confirmed

10:00 DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPEN-SOURCE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FUEL PERFORMANCE CODE OFFBEAT

Speaker: Alessandro Scolaro (EPFL)

IAEA_2021_Scolaro.docx

OFFBEAT.pdf

Confirmed

10:30 SCIANTIX OPEN-SOURCE CODE FOR FISSION GAS BEHAVIOUR: OBJECTIVES AND FORESEEN DEVELOPMENTS

Speaker: Davide Pizzocri (Politecnico di Milano)

Pizzocri_et_al_SCIANTIX_Extended_Abstract.docx

pizzocri_sciantix_oncore2022.pdf

Confirmed

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Technical Session 2-2: Recent developments in open-source tools

Conveners: Benoit Forget (MIT), Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)

11:30 ONIX: AN OPEN-SOURCE DEPLETION CODE FOR REACTOR ANALYSIS AND NUCLEAR SECURITY

Speaker: Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin (Harvard University)

Abstract.docx

Confirmed

12:00 Scalable Tightly-Coupled Multi-physics for Fusion Reactors with AURORA

Speaker: Helen Brooks (UKAEA)

brooks-oncore-06-2022.pdf

IAEA_AURORA_Extended_Abstract.docx

Confirmed

12:30 RETROSPECT, STATUS AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ‘CONTAINMENTFOAM’

Speaker: Stephan Kelm (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

2022_6_Kelm_etal_containmentFOAM_ONCORE-TM.pdf

Kelm_etal_containmentFOAM_Abstract.pdf

Confirmed

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Panel 2: Vision and path forward for open-source software to serve the nuclear community

Panellists:
Alice Dufresne
Derek Gaston
Stephan Kelm
Paul Romano (remote)

Convener: Benoit Forget (MIT)

15:00 → 16:00 Technical Session 1-2: Advanced application of open-source tools to nuclear engineering problems

Convener: Alain Hebert (Polytechnique Montréal)

15:00 OPEN-SOURCING SAFETY, RISK, AND RELIABILITY TOOLS

Speaker: Dr Diego Mandelli (Idaho National Laboratory)

IAEA_OS_mandelli_ver1.pdf

INL-OS-mandelli_2.docx

Confirmed Online

15:30 MFEM-MGIS-MFRONT, a HPC mini-application targeting nonlinear thermo-mechanical simulations of nuclear fuels at mesoscale

Speaker: guillaume latu (CEA)

Abstract_Latu.docx

Latu_G_ONCORE.pdf

Confirmed

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 General Session 1-1: Motivations, experience, and challenges for the open-source approach

Convener: Jean Ragusa (Texas A&M University)

16:30 THE GEN-FOAM MULTI-PHYSICS SOLVER AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TOWARDS AN OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORM FOR REACTOR ANALYS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND LESSONS LEANRT

Speaker: carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

GeN-FoamDEVEL.pdf

pres_GeN-Foam.pdf

Confirmed

17:00 CONTRIBUTING TO OPENFOAM FOUNDATION RELEASE - AN EFFECTIVE CODE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Speaker: Fabian Schlegel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

20210607_IAEA_Schlegel_Abstract.pdf

202205_IAEA_Schlegel_et_al.pdf

Confirmed

Thursday 23 June

09:00 → 11:00 General Session 1-2: Motivations, experience, and challenges for the open-source approach

Conveners: Helen Brooks (UKAEA), Maria Avramova (North Carolina State University)

09:00 DRAGON and DONJON: a legacy open-source reactor physics project at Polytechnique Montréal

Speaker: Alain Hebert (Polytechnique Montréal)

Alain_Oncore.pdf

IAEA_Hebert.pdf

Confirmed

09:30 On Application of Open-Source Learning Models to Nuclear Engineering

Speaker: Patrick Shriwise (Argonne National Laboratory)

iaea_open_source_learning_2021.pdf

ONCORE Open-Source Education.pdf

Confirmed

10:00 The Modern Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank: An Integrated Hub for Code and Data Development and Validation

Speaker: Michael Fleming (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)

NEA-DB Abstract (2).docx

NEA-DB Abstract.docx

ONCORE-NEADB.pdf

Confirmed

10:30 USE OF OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING: EXPERIENCE FROM POLIMI AND EPFL

Speaker: Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)

Educational_paper.docx

Confirmed Online

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Panel 3: Open-source software for education and training

Panellists:
Maria Avramova, North Carolina State University, USA
Zolt Elter, Seaborg Technologies, Denmark/Uppsala University, Sweden
Stefano Lorenzi, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
Benoit Forget, Massuchetts Institute of Technology, USA

Conveners: Christophe Demazière (Chalmers University of Technology), Kostadin Ivanov (North Carolina State University, USA)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 General Session 1-3: Motivations, experience, and challenges for the open-source approach

Conveners: Eugene Shwageraus (University of Cambridge), Stephan Kelm (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

14:00 Challenges and Lessons Learned from 10 Years of OpenMC Development

Speaker: Paul Romano (Argonne National Laboratory)

OpenMC_Abstract.docx

openmc_challenges.pdf

Confirmed online

14:30 USE OF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE AT ENEA FOR NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY SIMULATIONS

Speaker: Antonio Cervone (ENEA)

Abstract_CERVONE.docx

oncore2022-cervone.pdf

Confirmed

15:00 SCONE: AN OPEN-SOURCE MONTE CARLO NEUTRON TRANSPORT CODE FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Speaker: Paul Cosgrove (University of Cambridge)

ONCORE_Paul.pdf

SCONE_ONCORE(1).docx

Confirmed

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Closing

Friday 24 June

09:00 → 13:00 Technical Tour