Coupled multi-physics calculations
Serpent 2 has been written with multi-physics applications in mind. The capability to model arbitrarily detailed density and temperature distributions means that most temperature and density distributions given by e.g. thermal hydraulics or CFD solvers can be brought into Serpent using one of the multi-physics interface file formats without loss of detail.
Contents
External coupling
Internal solvers
Iteration
Multi-physics interface
Power relaxation
Serpent relaxes the power distribution calculated in the iterations using the stochastic approximation based method[1], where the power distribution at iteration is calculated by
where is the unrelaxed power distribution tallied on iteration , is the relaxed power distribution after the previous iteration, is the active neutron population simulated on iteration and is an underrelaxation factor that can be defined by the set relfactor option.
Output
- ^ Dufek, J. and Gudowski, W. "Stochastic Approximation for Monte Carlo Calculation of Steady-State Conditions in Thermal Reactors", Nucl. Sci. Eng, 152 (2006) 274-283