Modeling and Simulation in Nuclear Energy

[Astronuc]

Modeling and simulation, or computational physics/chemistry, is a large and important part of engineering. In nuclear energy, there are applications of finite element methods (and occasionally finite different or finite volume depending on the problem) applied to nuclear plants, nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel performance/behavior under normal, off-normal, and abnormal/transient conditions.

ANS's Nuclear Technology has a nice set of articles on some of the codes developed by US DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Similar codes have been developed by other institutions and in other nations. OECD/NEA also provides a set of codes.

Nuclear Technology ​

Volume 207, 2021 - Issue 7: Special issue on the MOOSE Multiphysics Computational Framework

The first article introduces the MOOSE Multiphysics Computational Framework for Nuclear Power Applications: A Special Issue of Nuclear Technology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1915487?src=recsys

It is currently open source.

Keyword: Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) framework

 

[Alex A]

This is a cool thing, and the MOOSE framework is indeed open source and can be found here,
https://github.com/idaholab/moose

Sadly the nuclear engineering modules, even Sockeye that just does heat pipe modeling, are behind layers of your organisation must be registered with our organisation and we will vet your application individually and even then we probably won't give you source code access.

Meanwhile OpenMC does burnup calculations now and that is absolutely blowing my mind.