The AMP (Advanced MultiPhysics) nuclear fuel performance code

Kevin T. Clarno; Bobby Philip; William K. Cochran; Rahul S. Sampath; Srikanth Allu; Pallab Barai; Srdjan Simunovic; Mark A. Berrill; Larry J. Ott; Sreekanth Pannala; Gary A. Dilts; Bogdan Mihaila; Gokhan Yesilyurt; Jung Ho Lee; James E. Banfield

doi:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.07.018

The AMP (Advanced MultiPhysics) nuclear fuel performance code

Kevin T. Clarno, Bobby Philip, William K. Cochran, Rahul S. Sampath, Srikanth Allu, Pallab Barai, Srdjan Simunovic, Mark A. Berrill, Larry J. Ott, Sreekanth Pannala, Gary A. Dilts, Bogdan Mihaila, Gokhan Yesilyurt, Jung Ho Lee, James E. Banfield

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Abstract

The AMP (Advanced MultiPhysics) Nuclear Fuel Performance code is a new, three-dimensional, multi-physics tool that uses state-of-the-art solution methods and validated nuclear fuel models to simulate the nominal operation and anticipated operational transients of nuclear fuel. The AMP Nuclear Fuel Performance code leverages existing validated material models from traditional fuel performance codes and the Scale/ORIGEN-S spent-fuel characterization code to provide an initial capability that is shown to be sufficiently accurate for a single benchmark problem and anticipated to be accurate for a broad range of problems. The thermomechanics foundation can be solved in a time-dependent or quasi-static approach with any variation of operator-split or fully-coupled solutions at each time step through interoperable interfaces to leading computational mathematics tools, including PETSc, Trilinos, and SUNDIALS. A baseline validation of the AMP Nuclear Fuel Performance code has been performed through the modeling of an experiment in the Halden Reactor Project (IFA-432) that demonstrates the integrated capability and provides a baseline of the initial accuracy of the software.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-120
Number of pages	13
Journal	Nuclear Engineering and Design
Volume	252
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.07.018
State	Published - Nov 2012

Funding

The development of the AMP Nuclear Fuel Performance code was funded by the Fuels IPSC element of the NEAMS program of the U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Energy AMSO . Several researchers were critical in guiding and developing this work, including Phani Nukala (ORNL) in computational mechanics and Cetin Unal (LANL) for overall project guidance, development, and contributions to understanding and guiding the overall multiscale fuel performance simulation efforts within the NEAMS program. Mark Berrill acknowledges support from the Eugene P. Wigner Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.

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DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
U.S. Department of Energy	DE-AC05-00OR22725
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Clarno, K. T., Philip, B., Cochran, W. K., Sampath, R. S., Allu, S., Barai, P., Simunovic, S., Berrill, M. A., Ott, L. J., Pannala, S., Dilts, G. A., Mihaila, B., Yesilyurt, G., Lee, J. H., & Banfield, J. E. (2012). The AMP (Advanced MultiPhysics) nuclear fuel performance code. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 252, 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.07.018

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