10th Serpent User Group MeetingOnline only

27 Oct 2020, 16:00 → 30 Oct 2020, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

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Christian Reiter (FRM II - TUM)

The 2020 Serpent User Group meeting will be hosted by Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), TUM, in Garching, Germany, from October 27 to 30. The purpose of the meeting is to gather Serpent users from around the world to present and discuss their work. The expected number of participants is 30-40, ranging from undergraduate students to senior professionals.

The previous meetings were held in Dresden, Germany (2011); Madrid, Spain (2012); Berkeley, CA, USA (2013); Cambridge, UK (2014); Knoxville, TN, USA (2015); Milan, Italy (2016); Gainesville, FL, USA (2017), Espoo, Finland (2018), Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2019).


 

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The participation in the Sepent User Group Meeting is free of charge. 

 

 

Program-UGM2020.pdf

Tuesday, 27 October

16:00 → 18:00 Welcome Session: Greetings

16:00 Get Together and Technical Test

16:30 The mission of MLZ and FRM II

Speaker: Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (TU München, Physik-Department, LS Funktionelle Materialien)

The mission of MLZ and FRM II.mp4

17:00 The Conversion Program at the FRM II

Speaker: Prof. Winfried Petry (FRM II - TUM)

FRM II Conversion.mp4

17:30 Greetings from the Serpent developer team

Speaker: Prof. Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

Greetings from the Serpent developer team.mp4

Wednesday, 28 October

09:00 → 11:30 Technical Session: New features in Serpent

09:00 Recent progress in Serpent development

Speaker: Prof. Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

Recent progress in Serpent development.mp4

09:30 Recent progress in Kraken development

Speaker: Dr Ville Valtavirta (VTT)

Recent progress in Kraken development.mp4

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Functional expansion tally-based features in Serpent 2

Speaker: Ana Jambrina (LUT University)

Functional expansion tally-based features in Serpent 2.mp4

11:00 Implementation of Involutes in Serpent

Speaker: Christian Reiter

Implementation of Involutes in Serpent.mp4

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Technical Session: Fast Reactors

13:00 Serpent application to Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests

Speaker: Simone Di Pasquale (N.IN.E.)

Serpent application to Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests.mp4

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

Speaker: Emil Fridman (HZDR)

China Experimental Fast Reactor transient simulation of the control rod drop experiments with Serpent.mp4

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)

Speaker: Emil Fridman (HZDR)

Comparison of ENDFVII ENDFB and JEFF-3.3 as applied to SA&UC of China Experimental Fast Reactor.mp4

14:10 New internal plotter in Serpent

Speaker: Prof. Jaakko Leppänen (VTT)

Serpent new internal plotter.mp4

14:20 Dynamic Plotter in Serpent

Serpent dynamic plotter.mp4

14:30 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:30 Technical Session: Group constants

15:00 Microscopic depletion with Serpent

Speaker: Antti Rintala (VTT)

Microscopic depletion with Serpent.mp4

15:30 Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Solver Employing Serpent’s Homogenized Group Constants

Speaker: Rizki Oktavian (Purdue University)

Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Solver Employing Serpent’s Homogenized Group Constants.mp4

16:00 Serpent2/POLCA8 3D Single-Channel Benchmark

Speaker: Petri Tom Forslund Guimarães (Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB)

Serpent2 POLCA8 3D Single-Channel Benchmark.mp4

16:30 → 17:00 Virtual Group Photo

Thursday, 29 October

09:00 → 11:00 Technical Session: Multi-Physics

09:00 Coupled Serpent / Ansys CFX calculations

Speaker: Kaltrina Shehu

09:30 Multi-physics coupling between Serpent and COMSOL

Speaker: Chunyu Liu (TUM)

10:00 Serpent multiphysics calculations for transient analysis in LWR

Speaker: Diego Ferraro (KIT)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Technical Session: MSR

11:00 The ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor

Speaker: Jonathan Scherr (Abilene Christian University)

11:15 Precursor drift in molten salt reactors

Speaker: Olga Negri

11:30 Implementaion of arithmetric operations in the Serpent Input

Speaker: Armin Seubert

11:45 Material Flows and On-line Reprocessing in Serpent

Speaker: Luke Seifert (The University of Illinois)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Technical Session: Burnup

13:00 Validation calculations for Serpent full-core pin-by-pin burnup in Light Water Reactors

Speaker: Manuel García (KIT)

13:30 Code-to-code depletion benchmark to test the novel SERPENT2 capabilities while utilizing different energy deposition models

Speaker: Augusto Hernandez Solis (SCK-CEN)

14:00 Coffee break

14:30 Use of Serpent Monte-Carlo code for development of 3D full-scale models and analysis of spent fuel quivers

Speaker: Vaibhav Mishra (Uppsala Universitet)

15:00 Effect of spatial and time discretization parameters on calculated PWR spent fuel observables

Speaker: Gašper Žerovnik (EC-JRC Geel)

18:00 → 21:00 Virtual Social Event

Friday, 30 October

09:00 → 11:30 Technical Session: Miscellaneous

09:00 Serpent model of W7-X stellarator for 14.1 MeV neutrons

Speaker: Simppa Äkäslompolo (Aalto University)

09:30 First steps at FRM II to use Serpent in medical applications

Speaker: Daniel Bonete Wiese (TUM)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Application of Serpent 2 for fuel debris neutronic modeling

Speaker: Pavel Pugachev (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

11:00 Accelerating Surface Tracking via Distance Caching

Speaker: Mikolaj Kowalski (University of Cambridge)

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 17:00 Technical Session: Miscellaneous

13:00 High Flux Reactor conversion to LEU

Speaker: Davide Portinari (ILL)

13:30 Calibration of neutron detectors at ASDEX Upgrade

Speaker: Monika Koleva (IPP)

14:00 Coffee break

14:30 Core Power Distribution Sensitivity

Speaker: Pamela Lopez (LPSC-CNRS/EDF)

15:30 Benchmarking Serpent 2 for fusion neutronics applications

Speaker: Alex Valentine (UK Atomic Energy Authority)

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Modeling with Serpent 2.1.31

Speaker: Pascal Rouxelin (North Carolina State University)

17:00 → 17:30 Closure & Adjourn