Recent content by Vnt666Skr

Hi I am using relap to study a blowdown transient. If I let it run it with actual heat fluxes, the program terminates with error message saying thermodynamic property error with maximum time step. Reducing the time step delays the onset of the error by a fraction of a second. Runs much longer...

Thanks Astronuc. Is it defined at each axial/radial position? Suppose I have a power profile of a single pin. How do I find out the peaking factors at various locations in the axial and radial direction?

Is the radial peaking factor same as normalized radial power profile?

Thanks QuantumPion ! :)

Hi, I am a beginner with the use of relap. So this might be a bit silly. I am studying the heat transfer between a fuel rod and a single channel of coolant. One of the inputs for the heat structure is the direct moderator heating multiplier. What is that and how do I find its value? Thanks...

Hi all, I am a graduate student of Nuclear Engineering studying fuel and cladding performance during different conditions in the reactor. I have access to FRAPTRAN/FRAPCON codes from frapcon.labworks.org. Being a newbie, I am quite unfamiliar as to how it all works. So is it ok if I...

Thanks for your insight Smed,x86 and Thermalne. I enjoyed programming in Python. FORTRAN and C although more popular, are not as easy to use and learn as Python. Yes, Python tends to be slower than the other two. But now that I am learning and liking it, I don't think it's wise to leave it...

Thank you very much kinkmode ! Waiting for more responses.

This Fall I will be joining my university for MS Nuclear Engineering. My undergraduate major is Mechanical Engineering. I have a few questions. 1. How important is computational physics in Nuclear Engineering? 2. How to go about learning and practicing it in the context of nuclear engineering...

I am a novice in FORTRAN Programming and is still in the learning phase. I wanted to solve a system of differential equations with boundary condition at two points. I know I need to use BVPFD subroutine and what about this IMSL Math Library? Pls help me out

I am Vineeth Shankar. Currently, I live in India and I am in the final year of undergraduate programme in Mechanical Engineering. I have deep interest in physics and so, with my present background of Mechanical Engineering, I initially thought doing Nuclear Engineering would be the ideal thing...