Explore Alternative Transient Analysis Codes for Neutronic Operations

[MajestikMoose]

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]

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]

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]

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.