A review of molten salt reactor multi-physics coupling models and development prospects

J Wu, J Chen, X Cai, C Zou, C Yu, Y Cui, A Zhang… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are one type of GEN-IV advanced reactors that adopt melt
mixtures of heavy metal elements and molten salt as both fuel and coolant. The liquid fuel …

A review of neutronics and thermal hydraulics–based screening methods applied to accelerated nuclear fuel qualification

JP Gorton, CM Petrie, AT Nelson - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the state-of-the-art engineering approach for using thermal hydraulic
(TH) and neutronics modeling and simulation (M&S) tools to perform rapid screening studies …

[HTML][HTML] Using machine learning to forecast and assess the uncertainty in the response of a typical PWR undergoing a steam generator tube rupture accident

TCH Nguyen, A Diab - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, a multivariate time-series machine learning meta-model is developed to predict
the transient response of a typical nuclear power plant (NPP) undergoing a steam generator …

An efficient scheme for coupling OpenMC and FLUENT with adaptive load balancing

Q Zhang, T Peng, G Zhang, J Liu, X Guo… - … and Technology of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a multi‐physics interface code MC‐FLUENT to couple the Monte Carlo
code OpenMC with the commercial computational fluid dynamics code ANSYS FLUENT …

Acceleration of nuclear reactor simulation and uncertainty quantification using low-precision arithmetic

A Cherezov, A Vasiliev, H Ferroukhi - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, interest in approximate computing has been increasing significantly in many
disciplines in the context of saving energy and computation cost by trading off on the quality …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of the novel core solver nTRACER/COBRA-TF for full core high fidelity cycle analysis of VVERs

M Papadionysiou, S Kim, M Hursin, A Vasiliev… - … Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
This work is focused on the expansion of the Laboratory of Reactor Physics and Thermal-
Hydraulics (LRT) of PSI multi-physics high-resolution core solver nTF/CTF to full core cycle …

Quantification of uncertainties due to manufacturing tolerances using deterministic sampling methods

EYG Cervantes, B Erasmus, S van der Marck… - … Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to assess the applicability of three Deterministic Sampling (DS)
methods (namely DS-Standard, DS-Simplex and DS-Hadamard) for uncertainty …

Development of a 3D APOLLO3® Neutron Deterministic Calculation Scheme for the CABRI Experimental Reactor

T Coissieux, J Politello, C Vaglio-Gaudard… - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
CABRI is an experimental reactor at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
Commission (CEA) used to study fuel behavior during reactivity insertion transients. As …

[HTML][HTML] Towards high-fidelity high-resolution modeling of a BWR fuel assembly by CASMO-5

A Cherezov, A Vasiliev, H Ferroukhi - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
This study focuses on analyzing the depletion of a fuel assembly irradiated in the boiling
water reactor and reaching deep burnups. CASMO-5 was utilized to calculate the power …

Safety evaluation of Multiple Steam Generator Tube rupture accident using the best estimate plus uncertainty approach

S Dzień, A Diab - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Following the disaster in Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in 2011, the awareness of
securing the safety of NPP under extreme events has been raised. For this purpose, the …