Name: 10th Serpent User Group Meeting
Start: 2020-10-27T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-10-30T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Zoom

10th Serpent User Group Meeting

from Tuesday, 27 October 2020 (16:00) to Friday, 30 October 2020 (18:30)

Monday, 26 October 2020
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
16:00 Greetings
Greetings
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 The mission of MLZ and FRM II - Peter Müller-Buschbaum (TU München, Physik-Department, LS Funktionelle Materialien)

17:00 The Conversion Program at the FRM II - Winfried Petry (FRM II - TUM)

17:30 Greetings from the Serpent developer team - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 Recent progress in Serpent development - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

09:30 Recent progress in Kraken development - Ville Valtavirta (VTT)

10:30 Functional expansion tally-based features in Serpent 2 - Ana Jambrina (LUT University)

11:00 Implementation of Involutes in Serpent - Christian Reiter
11:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Serpent application to Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests - Simone Di Pasquale (N.IN.E.)

13:30 China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR): transient simulation of the control rod drop experiments with Serpent - Emil Fridman (HZDR)

14:00 Comparison of ENDF/B-VII.1, ENDF/B-VIII.0, and JEFF-3.3 as applied to SA&UC of China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) - Emil Fridman (HZDR)

14:10 New internal plotter in Serpent - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

14:20 Dynamic Plotter in Serpent
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Microscopic depletion with Serpent - Antti Rintala (VTT)

15:30 Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Solver Employing Serpent’s Homogenized Group Constants - Rizki Oktavian (Purdue University)

16:00 Serpent2/POLCA8 3D Single-Channel Benchmark - Petri Tom Forslund Guimarães (Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB)
16:30 Virtual Group Photo
Virtual Group Photo
16:30 - 17:00
Thursday, 29 October 2020
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Coupled Serpent / Ansys CFX calculations - Kaltrina Shehu

09:30 Multi-physics coupling between Serpent and COMSOL - Chunyu Liu (TUM)

10:00 Serpent multiphysics calculations for transient analysis in LWR - Diego Ferraro (KIT)
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 The ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor - Jonathan Scherr (Abilene Christian University)

11:15 Precursor drift in molten salt reactors - Olga Negri

11:30 Implementaion of arithmetric operations in the Serpent Input - Armin Seubert

11:45 Material Flows and On-line Reprocessing in Serpent - Luke Seifert (The University of Illinois)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:30
Contributions

13:00 Validation calculations for Serpent full-core pin-by-pin burnup in Light Water Reactors - Manuel García (KIT)

13:30 Code-to-code depletion benchmark to test the novel SERPENT2 capabilities while utilizing different energy deposition models - Augusto Hernandez Solis (SCK-CEN)

14:30 Use of Serpent Monte-Carlo code for development of 3D full-scale models and analysis of spent fuel quivers - Vaibhav Mishra (Uppsala Universitet)

15:00 Effect of spatial and time discretization parameters on calculated PWR spent fuel observables - Gašper Žerovnik (EC-JRC Geel)
18:00 Virtual Social Event
Virtual Social Event
18:00 - 21:00
Friday, 30 October 2020
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 Serpent model of W7-X stellarator for 14.1 MeV neutrons - Simppa Äkäslompolo (Aalto University)

09:30 First steps at FRM II to use Serpent in medical applications - Daniel Bonete Wiese (TUM)

10:30 Application of Serpent 2 for fuel debris neutronic modeling - Pavel Pugachev (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

11:00 Accelerating Surface Tracking via Distance Caching - Mikolaj Kowalski (University of Cambridge)
11:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 17:00
Contributions

13:00 High Flux Reactor conversion to LEU - Davide Portinari (ILL)

13:30 Calibration of neutron detectors at ASDEX Upgrade - Monika Koleva (IPP)

14:30 Core Power Distribution Sensitivity - Pamela Lopez (LPSC-CNRS/EDF)

15:30 Benchmarking Serpent 2 for fusion neutronics applications - Alex Valentine (UK Atomic Energy Authority)

16:30 TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Modeling with Serpent 2.1.31 - Pascal Rouxelin (North Carolina State University)
17:00 Closure & Adjourn
Closure & Adjourn
17:00 - 17:30