Introduction to Moltres: An application for simulation of Molten Salt Reactors

Alexander Lindsay; Gavin Ridley; Andrei Rykhlevskii; Kathryn Huff

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2017.12.025

Introduction to Moltres: An application for simulation of Molten Salt Reactors

Alexander Lindsay, Gavin Ridley, Andrei Rykhlevskii, Kathryn Huff

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Abstract

Moltres is a new physics application for modeling coupled physics in fluid-fuelled, molten salt reactors. This paper describes its neutronics model, thermal hydraulics model, and their coupling in the MOOSE framework. Neutron and precursor equations are implemented using an action system that allows use of an arbitrary number of groups with no change in the input card. Results for many-channel configurations in 2D-axisymmetric and 3D coordinates are presented and compared against other coupled models as well as the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	530-540
Number of pages	11
Journal	Annals of Nuclear Energy
Volume	114
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.12.025
State	Published - Apr 2018

Keywords

Finite elements
MOOSE
Molten Salt Reactors
Multiphysics
Parallel computing
Reactor physics

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