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, October 27, 2020 (4:00 PM) to Friday, October 30, 2020 (6:30 PM)

Monday, October 26, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
4:00 PM Welcome Session: Greetings
Greetings
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM The mission of MLZ and FRM II - Peter Müller-Buschbaum (TU München, Physik-Department, LS Funktionelle Materialien)

5:00 PM The Conversion Program at the FRM II - Winfried Petry (FRM II - TUM)

5:30 PM Greetings from the Serpent developer team - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
9:00 AM Technical Session: New features in Serpent
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent progress in Serpent development - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

9:30 AM Recent progress in Kraken development - Ville Valtavirta (VTT)

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

11:00 AM Implementation of Involutes in Serpent - Christian Reiter
11:30 AM Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Technical Session: Fast Reactors
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Serpent application to Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests - Simone Di Pasquale (N.IN.E.)

1:30 PM China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR): transient simulation of the control rod drop experiments with Serpent - Emil Fridman (HZDR)

2:00 PM 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)

2:10 PM New internal plotter in Serpent - Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

2:20 PM Dynamic Plotter in Serpent
3:00 PM Technical Session: Group constants
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Microscopic depletion with Serpent - Antti Rintala (VTT)

3:30 PM Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Solver Employing Serpent’s Homogenized Group Constants - Rizki Oktavian (Purdue University)

4:00 PM Serpent2/POLCA8 3D Single-Channel Benchmark - Petri Tom Forslund Guimarães (Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB)
4:30 PM Virtual Group Photo
Virtual Group Photo
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 29, 2020
9:00 AM Technical Session: Multi-Physics
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Coupled Serpent / Ansys CFX calculations - Kaltrina Shehu

9:30 AM Multi-physics coupling between Serpent and COMSOL - Chunyu Liu (TUM)

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

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

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

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

11:45 AM Material Flows and On-line Reprocessing in Serpent - Luke Seifert (The University of Illinois)
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Technical Session: Burnup
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Validation calculations for Serpent full-core pin-by-pin burnup in Light Water Reactors - Manuel García (KIT)

1:30 PM Code-to-code depletion benchmark to test the novel SERPENT2 capabilities while utilizing different energy deposition models - Augusto Hernandez Solis (SCK-CEN)

2:30 PM Use of Serpent Monte-Carlo code for development of 3D full-scale models and analysis of spent fuel quivers - Vaibhav Mishra (Uppsala Universitet)

3:00 PM Effect of spatial and time discretization parameters on calculated PWR spent fuel observables - Gašper Žerovnik (EC-JRC Geel)
6:00 PM Virtual Social Event
Virtual Social Event
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, October 30, 2020
9:00 AM Technical Session: Miscellaneous
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Serpent model of W7-X stellarator for 14.1 MeV neutrons - Simppa Äkäslompolo (Aalto University)

9:30 AM First steps at FRM II to use Serpent in medical applications - Daniel Bonete Wiese (TUM)

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

11:00 AM Accelerating Surface Tracking via Distance Caching - Mikolaj Kowalski (University of Cambridge)
11:30 AM Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Technical Session: Miscellaneous
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM High Flux Reactor conversion to LEU - Davide Portinari (ILL)

1:30 PM Calibration of neutron detectors at ASDEX Upgrade - Monika Koleva (IPP)

2:30 PM Core Power Distribution Sensitivity - Pamela Lopez (LPSC-CNRS/EDF)

3:30 PM Benchmarking Serpent 2 for fusion neutronics applications - Alex Valentine (UK Atomic Energy Authority)

4:30 PM TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Modeling with Serpent 2.1.31 - Pascal Rouxelin (North Carolina State University)
5:00 PM Closure & Adjourn
Closure & Adjourn
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM