TY - JOUR
T1 - The Virtual Test Bed (VTB) Repository
T2 - A Library of Reference Reactor Models Using NEAMS Tools
AU - Giudicelli, Guillaume L.
AU - Abou-Jaoude, Abdalla
AU - Novak, April J.
AU - Abdelhameed, Ahmed
AU - Balestra, Paolo
AU - Charlot, Lise
AU - Fang, Jun
AU - Feng, Bo
AU - Folk, Thomas
AU - Freile, Ramiro
AU - Freyman, Thomas
AU - Gaston, Derek
AU - Harbour, Logan
AU - Hua, Thanh
AU - Jiang, Wen
AU - Martin, Nicolas
AU - Miao, Yinbin
AU - Miller, Jason
AU - Naupa, Isaac
AU - O’Grady, Dan
AU - Reger, David
AU - Shemon, Emily
AU - Stauff, Nicolas
AU - Tano, Mauricio
AU - Terlizzi, Stefano
AU - Walker, Samuel
AU - Permann, Cody
N1 - This work was supported by the INL (Laboratory Directed Research and Development) Office of Nuclear Energy (DE-AC07-05ID14517) and Office of Science (DE-AC02-06CH11357). The authors would like to acknowledge Javier Ortensi, Sebastian Schunert, Jason Hales, Steve Novascone, Benjamin Spencer, Dillon Shaver, Patrick Shriwise, Kun Mo, and Justin Thomas for their contributions to the models that were published in the VTB. Numerous individuals have made substantial contributions to the VTB thus far. Contributors can be divided into five main categories: (1) repository infrastructure developers: G. Giudicelli, C. Permann, L. Harbour, and J. Miller; (2) managers responsible for securing funding, organizing the project, and representing the initiative: A. Abou-Jaoude, D. Gaston, B. Feng, and E. Shemon; (3) individuals who have developed models and ported them to the VTB: G. Giudicelli, A. Novak, P. Balestra, L. Charlot, J. Fang, R. Freile, T. Freyman, N. Martin, N. Stauff, M. Tano, T. Hua, I. Naupa, and L. Charlot; (4) individuals who have helped port existing models to the VTB: G. Giudicelli, A. Abdelhameed, T. Folk, Y. Miao, D. O’Grady, D. Reger, S. Walker, R. Freile, W. Jiang, J. Fang, and S. Terlizzi; and (5) individuals who have contributed to VTB documentation and tutorials on the VTB: G. Giudicelli, A. Abdelhameed, Y. Miao, and E. Shemon. This paper was authored by Battelle Energy Alliance LLC under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the DOE. This work was prepared for the DOE through the NRIC. The submitted paper was co-authored by UChicago Argonne, LLC, operator of Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne). Argonne, a DOE Office of Science laboratory, is operated under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. It also made use of the resources of the HPC at INL, which is supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the DOE and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 for convergence studies and the generation of group cross sections. The U.S. government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said paper to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the government. The DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan: energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan.
This paper was authored by Battelle Energy Alliance LLC under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the DOE. This work was prepared for the DOE through the NRIC. The submitted paper was co-authored by UChicago Argonne, LLC, operator of Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne). Argonne, a DOE Office of Science laboratory, is operated under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. It also made use of the resources of the HPC at INL, which is supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the DOE and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 for convergence studies and the generation of group cross sections.
PY - 2023/1/23
Y1 - 2023/1/23
N2 - With the next generation of nuclear reactors under development, modeling and simulation tools are being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy to support their design, licensing, and future operation. Mirroring the physical test beds currently under construction (i.e., Demonstration and Operation of Microreactor Experiments, known as DOME, and Laboratory for Operating and Testing in the United States, known as LOTUS), the Virtual Test Bed was launched by the National Reactor Innovation Center in collaboration with the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program to support the advanced reactor community. This collaborative effort, which involves multiple teams at both Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, aims to use state-of-the-art simulation tools to model a wide range of reactor designs. These models are automatically tested to ensure their continued functionality as the tools are further developed. Examples are extensively documented, each acting as a tutorial for applying the relevant NEAMS tools to that reactor design. Currently, five advanced reactor types (with a total of 12 specific design subvariants) are simulated by a variety of models. These models range from steady-state, core multiphysics simulations to integrated plant analysis during loss-of-flow transients. To our knowledge, this is the first publicly available library of multiphysics advanced reactor models distributed with extensive documentation and maintained through continuous integration.
AB - With the next generation of nuclear reactors under development, modeling and simulation tools are being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy to support their design, licensing, and future operation. Mirroring the physical test beds currently under construction (i.e., Demonstration and Operation of Microreactor Experiments, known as DOME, and Laboratory for Operating and Testing in the United States, known as LOTUS), the Virtual Test Bed was launched by the National Reactor Innovation Center in collaboration with the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program to support the advanced reactor community. This collaborative effort, which involves multiple teams at both Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, aims to use state-of-the-art simulation tools to model a wide range of reactor designs. These models are automatically tested to ensure their continued functionality as the tools are further developed. Examples are extensively documented, each acting as a tutorial for applying the relevant NEAMS tools to that reactor design. Currently, five advanced reactor types (with a total of 12 specific design subvariants) are simulated by a variety of models. These models range from steady-state, core multiphysics simulations to integrated plant analysis during loss-of-flow transients. To our knowledge, this is the first publicly available library of multiphysics advanced reactor models distributed with extensive documentation and maintained through continuous integration.
KW - advanced reactor
KW - Multiphysics
KW - Virtual Test Bed
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U2 - 10.1080/00295639.2022.2142440
DO - 10.1080/00295639.2022.2142440
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147022703
SN - 0029-5639
VL - 197
SP - 2217
EP - 2233
JO - Nuclear Science and Engineering
JF - Nuclear Science and Engineering
IS - 8
ER -