On February 23-24, scientists and engineers from a number of national laboratories, universities, and other research institutions attended a workshop on "High End Computing of Nuclear Fission Science and Engineering" in Salt Lake City. The workshop addressed access to Department of Energy high end computing facilities for basic research and engineering research in support of the renaissance of nuclear energy in the United States. At the beginning of the workshop, access to DOE high end computers was discussed by Doug Kothe (representing the National Leadership Computing Facility) and Francesca Verdier (representing the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center). Then scientists and engineers from DOE National Laboratories, academia and the nuclear power industry delivered technical presentations.
- Full Report ( 59kB PDF)
- Basic Research and Application Presentations and Papers:
- Introduction
- High End Computing for Nuclear Fission Science and Engineering ( 7.1MB PDF) – Paul Meakin
- National Leadership Computing Facility ( 5.1MB PDF) – Douglas Kothe
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Resources ( 1.5MB PDF) – Francesca Verdier
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Transport
- AREVA Use of CFD in Fuel Assembly Design and Licensing ( 476kB PDF) – Tom Keheley
- High End Computing for Nuclear Reactor Simulations with STAR ( 2.2MB PDF) – Simon Lo
- Parallel High-Order CFD with Uncertainty Quantifications ( 2.2MB PDF) – George Karniadakis
- Computational Materials Science
- PNNL Perspective on Grand Challenges in Materials Research in Support of GNEP ( 454kB PDF) – William Weber
- Atomistically-informed Mesoscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials ( 677kB PDF) – Dieter Wolf
- Computational Chemistry
- Computational Actinide Chemistry ( 8.7MB PDF) – Bert DeJong
- Computer-Aided Design of Radionuclide Sequestering Agents ( 1.7MB PDF) – Benjamin Hay
- Nuclear Reaction Cross-Sections
- Nuclear Engineering Applications
- Is a Virtual Reactor Possible? (12.5MB PDF) – Abderrafi Ougouag, Paul Turinsky and Dmitryi Anistratov
- Whole Core/System Code – Neutronics ( 1.8MB PDF) – Farzad Rahnema
- Various Virtual-Reactor Challenges ( 91kB PDF) – Marvin Adams
- Advanced Neutronics Simulation Development and Directions ( 886kB PDF) – Jess Gehin
- Thermochemical Modeling of Advanced Nuclear Fuels (supplemental information) ( 12kB PDF) – Ted Bessman
- Real-World Neutronics Calculations (21.9MB PDF) – Alireza Haghighat
- Neutrons Thermalization and Neutronics-Materials Interface Physics ( 510kB PDF) – Ayman Hawari
- Scientific and Computational Requirements
- Contacts:
- Paul Meakin, (208) 526-2776, Send E-mail