Software Design Document for the AMP Nuclear Fuel Performance Code

Philip, Bobby ; Clarno, Kevin T ; Cochran, Bill

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

关键词: Nuclear Energy;    29 Energy Planning, Policy And Economy;    11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials;    Nuclear Fuels;    Design;   

DOI  :  10.2172/981784
RP-ID  :  ORNL/TM-2010/34
RP-ID  :  DE-AC05-00OR22725
RP-ID  :  981784

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this document is to describe the design of the AMP nuclear fuel performance code. It provides an overview of the decomposition into separable components, an overview of what those components will do, and the strategic basis for the design. The primary components of a computational physics code include a user interface, physics packages, material properties, mathematics solvers, and computational infrastructure. Some capability from established off-the-shelf (OTS) packages will be leveraged in the development of AMP, but the primary physics components will be entirely new. The material properties required by these physics operators include many highly non-linear properties, which will be replicated from FRAPCON and LIFE where applicable, as well as some computationally-intensive operations, such as gap conductance, which depends upon the plenum pressure. Because there is extensive capability in off-the-shelf leadership class computational solvers, AMP will leverage the Trilinos, PETSc, and SUNDIALS packages. The computational infrastructure includes a build system, mesh database, and other building blocks of a computational physics package. The user interface will be developed through a collaborative effort with the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) Capability Transfer program element as much as possible and will be discussed in detail in a future document.