At the moment I'n involved with a project that is using the S3K transient analysis code. I was wondering if anyone knows of a different code that will perform transient neutronic operations.
Thanks in advance
Astronuc
Jul16-08, 07:52 PM
EPRI developed the ARROTTA code - 3D space-time kinetics code - for the purpose of reactor transient analysis. ARROTTA has been coupled with VIPRE-2. I don't know how well it performs with respect to S3K which is a fairly good code. The vendors have their own methods, but I believe they are not as advanced as S3K.
This paper might be useful - Parallel Computing Methods For The Epri Spatial Kinetics Code Arrotta
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/54277.html - look for options on the righthand side of the page for downloading.
MajestikMoose
Jul17-08, 03:43 AM
Thanks. I know that a lot of vendors use their own 'in-house' codes and don't distribute them commercially but is there any way of getting more information about them for a comparison to S3K? I'm trying to compare to see how they stand up to each other. Any type of benchmark test results would be useful.
Astronuc
Jul17-08, 09:31 AM
VTT and Fortum (Finland) have developed APROS, but I don't know much about it.
http://www.fortum.com/document.asp?path=14022;14024;14025;14035;15386;15387;15267;15273
There is a group in the Dept. of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue, who have developed PARCS, Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simulator, which might be available.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/PARCS
Vendor methods are proprietary (trade secret) and the details are not available in the public domain.