BISON Robustness and Performance Improvements
Conference
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OSTI ID:2203447
- Idaho National Laboratory
BISON is a modern finite-element based nuclear fuel performance code that has been under development at the Idaho National Laboratory (USA) since 2009 [1]. The code is applicable to both steady and transient fuel behavior and can be used to analyze 1D (spherically symmetric), 2D (axisymmetric and generalized plane strain) or 3D geometries. BISON is the fuel performance code used within CASL for LWR fuel under both normal operating and accident conditions. BISON is built using the INL Multiphysics ObjectOriented Simulation Environment, or MOOSE [2, 3]. MOOSE is a massively parallel, finite element-based framework to solve systems of coupled non-linear partial differential equations using the Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov (JFNK) method [4]. This enables investigation of computationally large problems, for example a full stack of discrete pellets in a LWR fuel rod, or every rod in a full reactor core. MOOSE supports the use of complex two and three-dimensional meshes and uses implicit time integration, important for the widely varied time scale in nuclear fuel simulation. An object-oriented architecture is employed which greatly minimizes the programming effort required to add new material and behavioral models. The flexibility of the implicit and fully coupled multiphysics approach comes with a need for constructing suitable approximations for the Jacobian matrix of the coupled system used for either preconditioning a Krylov solve or in a direct Newton solve. Preconditioning options for Bison problems need to be revisited with new preconditioning methods becoming available.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- 58
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 2203447
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-20-60467-Rev001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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