The eleventh International Serpent User Group Meeting was hosted by Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), TUM, in Garching, Germany, from August 29 to September 1. The meeting was organized as a hybrid live/on-line event. More than 20 participants joined the meeting in Garching, with varying number of on-line participation. The technical programme included a half-day workshop on VTT's new Kraken computational framework.

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

Kraken workshop

• Ville Valtavirta (VTT) - Introduction to the Kraken framework
• Ville Valtavirta (VTT) - Short overview of KrakenTools
• Ville Valtavirta (VTT) - Python level introduction to coupled calculations with Kraken using Cerberus

Presentations - Day 1

• Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - Greetings from the Serpent Developer Team
• Christian Reiter (TUM) - The FRM II and TUM Center for Nuclear Safety and Innovation

Presentations - Day 2

• Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - New base version, export control and distribution
• Joshua Hykes (SSP) - Serpent-SSP: VTT and Studsvik collaboration
• Ville Valtavirta (VTT) - Using Serpent with the nodal neutronics code Ants
• Petri Forslund (SSP) - CASMO5/SIMULATE5 vs. Serpent2 3D 2x2 Mini-Core CBH Benchmark Problem
• Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - On the performance of the particle tracking routine in Serpent 2
• Yves Robert (Berkeley) - Hyper-fidelity depletion coupled with discrete pebble motion in pebble bed reactors
• Yves Robert (Berkeley) - New features for pebble bed reactors simulations with Cerberus/Serpent
• Ana Jambrina (VTT) - New features in burnup framework in Serpent
• Emil Fridman (HZDR) - Modeling core deformations and related reactivity effects in SFRs

Presentations - Day 3

• Kaspar Klenø (Seaborg) - Using Serpent to design the CMSR
• Topias Kähkönen (VTT) - Variance reduction for collimated gamma detector geometry in Serpent
• Ana Jambrina (VTT) - Functional expansion tallies in Serpent
• Christian Reiter (TUM) - Serpent as main tool for conversion of FRM II (MISSING PDF)

Presentations - Day 4

• Jaakko Leppänen (VTT) - Use of Serpent-Kraken in VTT's LDR-50 district heating reactor project
• Daniel Bonete Wiese (TUM) - Motivation for a McStas-Serpent Coupling
• Christoph Hauf (TUM) - Simulations of the new shielding at SR8 with Serpent 2
• Kaltrina Shehu (TUM) - Serpent -- CFX Coupling
• Lauri Vaara (VTT) - Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation in Total Monte Carlo Method
• Paul Cosgrove (Cambridge) - The random ray method in the SCONE Monte Carlo code (also in OpenMC)
• Paul Weimer (TUM) - AI for CORE Optimization - First Steps coming from somewhere totally different

Related material

• Final meeting program
 

Participating organizations

•Bangor University
•Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS)
•Framatome GmbH
•FRM II
•GCR.AD
•Hanyang University
•Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
•Seaborg
•SKODA JS
•Studsvik Scandpower
•Sofia University
•Technische Universität München
•TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH
•UC Berkeley
•University of Cambridge
•Uppsala University
•VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd

All presentations in a single zip-compressed file (48M)