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# Creation of an OpenFOAM fuel performance class based on FRED and integration into the GeN-Foam multi-physics code

Fiorina Carlo; Pautz Andreas; Mikityuk Konstantin

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{
"publisher": "Zenodo",
"DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.1435696",
"title": "Creation of an OpenFOAM fuel performance class based on FRED and integration into the GeN-Foam multi-physics code",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2018,
9,
26
]
]
},
"abstract": "<p>The FRED code is an in-house tool developed at the Paul Scherrer Institut for the so-called 1.5-D nuclear fuel performance analysis. In order to extend its field of application, this code has been re-implemented as a class of the OpenFOAM numerical library. A first objective of this re-implementation is to provide this tool with the parallel scalability necessary for full-core analyses. In addition, the use of OpenFOAM as base library allows for a straightforward interface with the standard Open-FOAM CFD solvers, as well as with the several OpenFOAM-based applications developed by the nuclear engineering community. In this paper, the newly developed FRED-based Open-FOAM class has been integrated in the GeN-Foam multi-physics code mainly developed at the E&acute;cole polytechnique fe&acute;de&acute;rale de Lausanne and at the Paul Scherrer Institut. The paper presents the details of both the re-implementation of the FRED code and of its integration in GeN-Foam. The performances and parallel scalability of the tool are preliminary investigated and an example of application is provided by performing a full-core multiphysics analysis of the European Sodium Fast Reactor.</p>",
"author": [
{
"family": "Fiorina Carlo"
},
{
"family": "Pautz Andreas"
},
{
"family": "Mikityuk Konstantin"
}
],
"type": "paper-conference",
"id": "1435696"
}
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