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

Europe/Vienna
POLIMI (Milano, Italy)

POLIMI

Milano, Italy

Description

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.  

    • 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

    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 17:30
      Workshop 3: Hands-on OpenMC introduction

      Mr Patrick Shriwise

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

      Mr Derek Gaston

    • 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 30m
    • 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 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      Poster Session
      • 13:30
        Investigating efficient coupling of Finite Element Analysis with Machine Learning to optimise a laboratory experiment. 20m
        Speaker: Rhydian Lewis (Swansea University)

        Confirmed Virtual

      • 13:30
        MULTI-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS TO PREDICT THE IRRADIATION-INDUCED CHANGE IN ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF FUSION REACTOR MATERIALS. 20m
        Speaker: Salahudeen Mohamed Kunju (Swansea University/UKAEA)

        Confirmed Virtual

      • 13:30
        Open source tools in support of multiphysics simulation for fusion 20m
        Speaker: Andrew Davis (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)

        Confirmed

      • 13:30
        Verification & Validation process in the open-source TRUST/TrioCFD Platform 20m
        Speaker: Dr Julie Darona (CEA)

        Confirmed

      • 13:30
        VERIFICATION OF MULTIPHYSICS COUPLING TECHNIQUES FOR MODELING OF MOLTEN SALT REACTORS 20m
        Speaker: Dr Jacob Groth-Jensen (seaborg technologies)

        Confirmed

      • 13:50
        Active coding assignments in nuclear reactor modelling 20m
        Speaker: Christophe Demazière (Chalmers University of Technology)

        Confirmed

      • 13:50
        Development and maintenance of OpenFOAM_RCS for German nuclear safety research related to the reactor cooling system 20m
        Speaker: Dr Ronald Lehnigk (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

        Confirmed Online

      • 13:50
        Open source neutron noise modelling 20m
        Speaker: Christophe Demazière (Chalmers University of Technology)

        Confirmed

      • 13:50
        THE GEN-FOAM MULTI-PHYSICS SOLVER FOR REACTOR ANALYISIS: STATUS AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS 20m
        Speaker: carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

        Confirmed

      • 13:50
        Validation of an OpenFOAM gas distribution solver for containment analysis 20m
        Speaker: Jörn Stewering (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)

        Confirmed Online

      • 14:15
        FOUNDATIONS FOR A FISSION BATTERY DIGITAL TWIN 20m
        Speaker: Jeren Browning (Idaho National Laboratory)

        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 20m
        Speaker: Jaime Romero-Barrientos (CCHEN)

        Confirmed

      • 14:15
        VANGARD: A GPU-BASED HIGH-SPEED PINWISE NODAL CORE ANALYSIS CODE 20m
        Speaker: SEOYOON JEON (Seoul National University)

        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” 20m
        Speaker: ALEXANDER IVANOV (NRC "Kurchatov Institute")

        Confirmed Online

      • 14:40
        A concept of fluid dynamic code for molten salt reactor analysis with Open FOAM 20m
        Speaker: Dr Azizul Khakim (BAPETEN (Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency))
      • 14:40
        AN OPEN-SOURCE DATA-CENTRIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FAST FLUX TEST FACILITY ISOTHERMAL BENCHMARK CORE 20m
        Speaker: Nicholas Touran

        Confirmed

      • 14:40
        DEVELOPMENT OF ACCESSIBLE CODES FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY ANALYSIS IN THAILAND 20m
        Speaker: Mr Wasin Vechgama (Nuclear Technology Research and Development Center, Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (Public Organization), Bangkok, Thailand)
      • 14:40
        Development of an open source tool for water hammer and fluid-structure interaction simulation in nuclear reactor systems 20m
        Speaker: Marcelo Rocha (IPEN/CNEN)

        Confirmed Online

      • 14:40
        Development of Post Processor for VSOP'94 Output 20m
        Speaker: Anik Purwaningsih (National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia)
      • 14:40
        Enabling techniques within OpenMC for dynamic models of molten salt reactors 20m
        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 20m
        Speaker: Thomas Helfer (CEA)

        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 30m
        Speaker: Dr Kostadin Ivanov (North Carolina State University)

        Confirmed

      • 15:30
        USE OF OPEN-SOURCE MODELICA-BASED LIBRARIES AS SYSTEM CODE FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SIMULATION 30m
        Speaker: Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)

        Confirmed

      • 16:00
        FLAMEFOAM: AN OPENFOAM BASED SOLVER FOR PRACTICAL TURBULENT PREMIXED COMBUSTION SIMULATION 30m
        Speaker: Dr Mantas Povilaitis (Lithuanian Energy Institute)

        Confirmed

    • 09:00 11:00
      Technical Session 2-1: Recent developments in open-source tools
      Conveners: Raksmy Nop (CEA), Timothy Valentine (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:30 13:00
      Technical Session 2-2: Recent developments in open-source tools
      Conveners: Benoit Forget (MIT), Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 1h
    • 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)
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 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 30m
        Speaker: carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

        Confirmed

      • 17:00
        CONTRIBUTING TO OPENFOAM FOUNDATION RELEASE - AN EFFECTIVE CODE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 30m
        Speaker: Fabian Schlegel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

        Confirmed

    • 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)
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 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 1h
    • 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)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:00 17:30
      Closing
    • 09:00 13:00
      Technical Tour