ENRICO: Exascale Nuclear Reactor Investigative COde

ENRICO is an application that automates the workflow for solving a coupled particle transport, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics problem. Currently supported solvers include the OpenMC and Shift Monte Carlo codes, the Nek5000 and nekRS computational fluid dynamics codes, and a subchannel/heat diffusion surrogate solver.

The code establishes a mapping between the geometry representation in the Monte Carlo transport solver and the spectral element mesh used by Nek5000 so that the output of each code can be used as the input of the other. Heat generation rates determined by the transport solver are used as heat sources in the CFD simulation, and the temperature/density fields from the CFD simulation are used as inputs for the transport solve.

Documentation

• User’s Guide
  • 1. Quick Start Guide
  • 2. Platform-Specific Usage
  • 3. ENRICO Runtime Settings
• Developer’s Guide
  • 1. Contributing
  • 2. Style Guidelines
  • 3. C++ API
• Methodology
  • 1. Cell-Averaged Solution Transfer
  • 2. Communicator Splitting
• License Agreement

Acknowledgment

Development of ENRICO was supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a joint project of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration, responsible for delivering a capable exascale ecosystem, including software, applications, and hardware technology, to support the nation’s exascale computing imperative.