Richard C. Martineau

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a new modeling tool able to simulate coupled multiphysics and multiscale fuel behavior, for either 2D axisymmetric or 3D geometries.

TL;DR: The Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) aims to enable development by providing simplified interfaces for specification of partial differential equations, boundary conditions, material properties, and all aspects of a simulation without the need to consider the parallel, adaptive, nonlinear, finite-element solve that is handled internally.

TL;DR: Examples based on the KAIST-3A benchmark core, as well as a simplified Westinghouse AP-1000 configuration, demonstrate the power of this new framework for tackling—in a coupled, multiscale manner—crucial reactor phenomena such as CRUD-induced power shift and fuel shuffle.

TL;DR: The MOOSE (Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment) framework as mentioned in this paper is a multiscale framework for numerical simulation of nuclear power plants that allows for a variety of different data exchanges to occur simultaneously on high performance parallel computational hardware.

TL;DR: The Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) as mentioned in this paper provides simplified interfaces for specification of partial differential equations, boundary conditions, material properties, and all aspects of a simulation without the need to consider the parallel, adaptive, nonlinear, finite element solve.