The tenth International Serpent User Group Meeting was hosted by Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), TUM, in Garching, Germany, from October 27 to 30. Due to the exceptional conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire meeting was hosted remotely. A record number of 174 participants registered for the meeting.

The Serpent developer team wants to thank all participants for interesting presentations and discussion, and TUM for organizing and hosting the event.

Presentations - Day 1

Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - Greetings from the Serpent Developer Team

Presentations - Day 2

Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - Current status and recent development of Serpent 2
Ville Valtavirta (VTT) - Recent progress in Kraken development
Ana Jambrina (LUT University) - Functional expansion tally-based features in Serpent 2
Christian Reiter (TUM) - Implementation of Involutes in Serpent
Simone Di Pasquale (N.IN.E.) - Serpent application to Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests
Emil Fridman (HZDR) - China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR): transient simulation of the control rod drop experiments with Serpent
Emil Fridman (HZDR) - 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)
Antti Rintala (VTT) - Microscopic group constants with Serpent
Rizki Oktavian (Purdue University) - Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Solver Employing Serpent’s Homogenized Group Constants
Petri Tom Forslund Guimarães (Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB) - Serpent2/POLCA8 3D Single-Channel Benchmark
Simppa Äkäslompolo (Aalto University) - Serpent 2 python plotter

Presentations - Day 3

Kaltrina Shehu (TUM) - Coupled Serpent / Ansys CFX calculations
Chunyu Liu (TUM) - Multi-physics coupling between Serpent and COMSOL
Diego Ferraro (KIT) - Serpent multiphysics calculations for transient analysis in LWR
Jonathan Scherr (Abilene Christian University) - The ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor
Luke Seifert (The University of Illinois) - Material Flows and On-line Reprocessing in Serpent
Olga Negri (University of Manchester) - Precursor drift in molten salt reactors
Armin Seubert (GRS) - Parameterized Input Decks in Serpent using Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
Manuel García (KIT) - Validation calculations for Serpent full-core pin-by-pin burnup in Light Water Reactors
Augusto Hernandez Solis (SCK-CEN) - Code-to-code depletion benchmark to test the novel SERPENT2 capabilities while utilizing different energy deposition models
Vaibhav Mishra (Uppsala Universitet) - Use of Serpent Monte-Carlo code for development of 3D full-scale models and analysis of spent fuel quivers
Gašper Žerovnik (EC-JRC Geel) - Effect of spatial and time discretization parameters on calculated PWR spent fuel observables

Presentations - Day 4

Simppa Äkäslompolo (Aalto University) - Serpent model of W7-X stellarator for 14.1 MeV neutrons
Daniel Bonete Wiese (TUM) - First steps at FRM II to use Serpent in medical applications
Pavel Pugachev (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) - Application of Serpent 2 for fuel debris neutronic modeling
Mikolaj Kowalski (University of Cambridge) - Accelerating Surface Tracking via Distance Caching
Davide Portinari (ILL) - High Flux Reactor conversion to LEU
Monika Koleva (IPP) - Calibration of neutron detectors at ASDEX Upgrade
Pamela Lopez (LPSC-CNRS/EDF) - Core Power Distribution Sensitivity
Alex Valentine (UK Atomic Energy Authority) - Benchmarking Serpent 2 for fusion neutronics applications
Pascal Rouxelin (North Carolina State University) - TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Modeling with Serpent 2.1.31

Related material

Final meeting program
 

Participating organizations

Aalto University
Abilene Christian University
ANSTO
Argonne National Laboratory
Bangor University
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
CEA
Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear
Comision Nacional de Energía Atómica Argentina
EC-JRC Geel
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Fortum
Framatome GmbH
FRM II
Georgia Institute of Technology
German Aerospace Center
Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH
Grenoble Institute of Technology
Harbin Engineering University
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Idaho National Laboratory
IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture, SAU
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire - IRSN
Institut Laue-Langevin
Institute for Energy studies, University of North Dakota
Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear
Istanbul Technical University
JSC V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Khalifa University
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Lehrstuhl für Nukleartechnik, TUM
LPSC-CNRS
LUT University
Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics
McMaster university
MIT
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
National University of Mongolia
National University of Singapore
North Carolina State University
Nuclear and Industrial Engineering (N.IN.E.)
Nuclear Research and consultancy Group
Penn State University
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of NRC KI
PreussenElektra GmbH
PSI
Purdue University
Research Center Rez
Royal Military College of Canada
Scientia, LLC
SCK CEN
Singapore Nuclear Research and safety initiative
SKODA JS
Sofia University
Studsvik Scandpower, Inc.
Subatech
Technical university of Denmark
Technische Universität München
Texas A&M university
Tomsk Polytechnic University
tudelft/rid
TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH, Energie und Systeme
TVO
UC Berkeley
UIUC
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Università degli studi di Torino
Universitat Politècnica de València
University of Arkansas
University of Bologna
University of Cambridge
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Leeds
University of Manchester
University of Michigan
University of São Paulo
University of Sharjah
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Tokyo
University of West bohemia
Uppsala University
USNC-Tech
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd
Warsaw University of Technology
Westinghouse

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