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Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes

Development, Validation, and Application

  • 1st Edition - November 10, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jun Wang, Xin Li, Chris Allison, Judy Hohorst
  • Language: English

Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes: Development, Validation, and Application presents the latest research on the most widely used nuclear codes and the wealth of succes… Read more

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Description

Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes: Development, Validation, and Application presents the latest research on the most widely used nuclear codes and the wealth of successful accomplishments which have been achieved over the past decades by experts in the field. Editors Wang, Li,Allison, and Hohorst and their team of authors provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of nuclear code development and how to apply it to their work and research to make their energy production more flexible, economical, reliable and safe.

Written in an accessible and practical way, each chapter considers strengths and limitations, data availability needs, verification and validation methodologies and quality assurance guidelines to develop thorough and robust models and simulation tools both inside and outside a nuclear setting. This book benefits those working in nuclear reactor physics and thermal-hydraulics, as well as those involved in nuclear reactor licensing. It also provides early career researchers with a solid understanding of fundamental knowledge of mainstream nuclear modelling codes, as well as the more experienced engineers seeking advanced information on the best solutions to suit their needs.

Key features

  • Captures important research conducted over last few decades by experts and allows new researchers and professionals to learn from the work of their predecessors
  • Presents the most recent updates and developments, including the capabilities, limitations, and future development needs of all codes
  • Incudes applications for each code to ensure readers have complete knowledge to apply to their own setting

Readership

Engineers in the nuclear industry; professors and postgrad students involved in code development; senior professionals involved in code development from a computer science perspective; early career researchers and professionals requiring a foundational understanding of nuclear code development carried out by their predecessors, and how it applies to their specific area of research

Table of contents

I MAP OF CODE DEVELOPMENT

1. Roadmap
Jun Wang and Xin Li

2. Guidance of Nuclear Code development
Xianping Zhong

3. Nuclear Engineering Software Quality Assurance
Xinghe Ni

4. Multi-physics Coupling Plan
Miao Gui and Xingang Zhao

II PHYSICS AND FUELS CODES

5. Nuclear Physics Deterministic Code
Tengfei Zhang

6. Nuclear Physics Probability Code: OpenMC
Jiankai Yu

III FUELS AND SUB-CHANNEL CODES

7. Fuels and Assemblies Codes: FRAPCON/FRAPTRAN
Bowen Qiu

8. Fuels and Assemblies Codes: TRANSURANUS
Alessandro Del Nevo and Paul Van Uffelen

9. Fuels and Assemblies Codes: ALCYONE and GERMINAL
Alessio Magni and Bruno Michel

10. Sub-Channel Codes: CTF and VIPRE-01
Xingang Zhao

IV THERMAL-HYDRAULIC CODES

11. RCS Systems Thermal Hydraulic Codes: RELAP5-based codes
Victor Martinez-Quiroga

12. RCS Systems Thermal Hydraulic Codes: TRACE
Anil Gurgen

13. ATHLET
Andreas Wielenberg and Christine Bals

14. SAM
Jun Wang

15. Other Thermal Hydraulic Codes
LuTeng Zhang

V SEVERE ACCIDENT CODES

16. RCS SA Codes: RELAP/SCDAPSIM
Judy Hohorst and Chris Allison

17. ATHLET-CD
Andreas Wielenberg and Christine Bals

18. Integral SA Codes: IMPACT/SAMPSON
Marco Pellegrini

19. MELCOR
Jun Wang

VI Noval CFD methods

20. MPS Code
Zidi Wang

21. LBM Code
Cheng Hui and Huaqiang Liu

VII SPECIAL OR NEW DIRECTION

22. Code for Nuclear materials
Jianqi Xi

23. Nuclear Power Plant Cybersecurity
Fan Zhang

24. Artificial Neural Network
Jing Zhang

25. Artificial Intelligence Code
Lianshan Lin and Xing Wang

26.Temporal Data Mining (TDM)
Zaijing Sun

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 13, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

JW

Jun Wang

Dr. Jun Wang is a Research Scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has over 10 years of experience in code development, validation, and application, and his research areas include nuclear thermal hydraulics and safety, severe accident, fuel performance, and advanced reactors. Wang has over 50 peer-review articles published on top nuclear journals and conferences. He also has over 200 peer-review experience in 20 journals and conferences, such as the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Engineering and Design, and Progress in Nuclear Energy.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

XL

Xin Li

Dr. Xin Li has years of experience in numerical modeling both at the macroscopic nuclear power plant system level and at the microscopic phenomenological level. Her research interests and expertise are analysis of severe accident phenomenology and thermal-hydraulics as well as Computer Fluid Dynamics.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow in Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Member of Atomic Energy Society of Japan

CA

Chris Allison

Dr. Chris Allison worked at Idaho National Laboratory as a technical specialist for over 20 years, involved in experimental and code development activities. Now Dr. Allison is the general manager and co-founder of Innovative Systems Software (ISS), LLC. Dr. Allison serves as a technical consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for severe accident management and analysis. He has served as a guest lecturer for IAEA-sponsored training workshops on RELAP5 and RELAPS/SCDAP. He has served in a similar capacity for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Affiliations and expertise
Co-founder of Innovative Systems Software (ISS), LLC

JH

Judy Hohorst

Dr. Judy Hohorst works at Innovative Systems Software LLC as a senior engineer. She is in charge of the work RELAP/SCDAP training, and RELAP/SCDPASIM validation.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Engineer, Innovative Systems Software LLC

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